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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…

Individuals of Georgia entered the State of Florida and took enslaved people that they claimed were theirs back to Georgia.

William H. Todd, Washington Court House, OH, finds his mother in Macon, GA, after writing to people in the South for many years in search of her.

The bell rack. Contraption used by an Alabama slave owner to guard a runaway slave. This rack was originally topped by a bell which rang when the runaway attempted to leave the road and go through foliage or trees. It was attached around the neck as…

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…

Displays the lyrics to a song sung and written by slaves once their work days were over

Sheet music created by slaves in 1877. Lists the singers, writers, composers, and producers of the song called "Slavery Days".

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

Drawing of a slave standing over a white man

Shows enslaved African Americans being watched over by a white overseer as they work in a sugar cane field