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Newspaper celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation as the greatest event in the history of African Americans

This receipt displays the details of the purchase for two slaves- a mother and her son- and all of her future children. In total. Judge S. Williams of Eufaula paid six hundred dollars.

Lying on his stomach, the victim's hands and legs are tied to stakes while he is being whipped by the black overseer; next to one of his legs is the iron spiked collar, with attached chain, which was often attached to the neck of captured fugitive…

Dock Watson stating that he has found Alex Wesley

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

This recruitment poster shows Union soldiers at Camp William Penn in Philadelphia. By the spring of 1863 a committee of prominent Philadelphians was appointed to raise black regiments, and eleven were formed at Camp William Penn. This lithograph was…

A short prayer composed by a student at Atlanta Baptist College in response to racial troubles in Georgia in 1899.

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.

A list of laws relating to black people that were written in Manhattan from early colonization by the Dutch and British to the founding of the United States and pre-Civil War era.