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March on Washington

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The Southern Christian Leadership Conference invited Rosa Parks to participate in the 1963 March on Washington.

Slavery in America

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Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American.

The Representation of the Brig 'Vigilante'

This image shows a diagram of a slave ship used in the African slave trade.

Modes of Punishing Slaves

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The image shows two people being punished with different devices. One is being punished using a heavy iron collar, and another long wooden boards fastened around the necm.

Cross-section of French Slave Ship L'Aurore

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This image shows both an overhead view, and a view as if the ship was cut in half, and allows an understanding of the operation of the ship to its viewers.

Black Soldiers in the Union/Federal Army, ca. 1863-64

Black soldiers in line during Civil War

Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia by the Colored People

This image shows a large crowd of people gathered in celebration in Washington, D.C. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City and published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916. It…

Intra-American Slave Trade

The image shows most of North and South America. It vaguely shows how the countries and states within North and South America are split up today.

Unidentified woman resting her arm on a book entitled History of Slavery

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The potrait is of a white wealthy woman who has her arm on a book labeled history of slavery