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Oration delivered on Emancipation Day
Newspaper celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation as the greatest event in the history of African Americans
Tags: Emancipation Day, Georgia
Receipt for the sale of Jane, age 18, and her son, Henry, age 1, and all future children
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.
Tags: Alabama, Eufaula, Gelatin silver prints, slavery, United States
Whipping of a Fugitive Slave, French West Indies, 1840s
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…
The Representation of the Brig 'Vigilante'
This image shows a diagram of a slave ship used in the African slave trade.
Black Troops of the Union Army, Philadelphia, early 1864
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…
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.
Laws Affecting Blacks in Manhattan
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.
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