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

Black soldiers in line during Civil War

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.

A letter from James Madison to Robert I. Evans

A dramatization of tactics used by Zachary Taylor against the Seminole Indians. In this image, American soldiers are searching for fleeing Seminoles with help of bloodhounds. The American troops are on horseback and foot traveling through the carnage…

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

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

1 print : engraving. | Gouverneur Morris, half-length portrait, facing right.

Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy has ink stamp on p. [1]: Committee of Twelve for the Advancement of the Interests of the Negro Race, Cheyney, Pa. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA…

The broadside declaration is illustrated with a headpiece of Hercules strangling the Nemean lion as two astonished elders look on. Beneath the woodcut is the line, "Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder; the young lion and the dragon shalt thou…