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To the colored men of voting age in the southern states.
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…
Unidentified woman resting her arm on a book entitled History of Slavery
The potrait is of a white wealthy woman who has her arm on a book labeled history of slavery
Tags: History of Slavery, Women
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.
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…
Black Soldiers in the Union/Federal Army, ca. 1863-64
Black soldiers in line during Civil War
Cross-section of French Slave Ship L'Aurore
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.
Modes of Punishing Slaves
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.
The Representation of the Brig 'Vigilante'
This image shows a diagram of a slave ship used in the African slave trade.
Slavery in America
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries people were kidnapped from the continent of Africa, forced into slavery in the American.
Tags: slavery in America
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