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Speech before the American Anti-Slavery Society
A written speech that recalls the problems with slavery
Am I not a man and a brother?
The large, bold woodcut image of a supplicant male slave in chains appears on the 1837 broadside publication of John Greenleaf Whittier's antislavery poem, "Our Countrymen in Chains." The design was originally adopted as the seal of the Society for…
Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention. Assembled in Philadelphia, December 4, 1833.
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…
A prayer
A short prayer composed by a student at Atlanta Baptist College in response to racial troubles in Georgia in 1899.
Capoeira Scene
Water color on paper titled Negroes fighting, Brazils. Although the word fighting is in the artist's title, the men's body movements are those of Capoeira (see image reference NW0171 on this website). Several onlookers are shown, including a woman…
Gouverneur Morris / H.B. Hall.
1 print : engraving. | Gouverneur Morris, half-length portrait, facing right.
Hunting Indians in Florida with Bloodhounds
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…
Letter from Mosby Sheppard to James Monroe
A Letter from Mosby Sheppard to James Monroe warning him of Gabriel’s Conspiracy after two enslaves men owned by Moore leaked the conspiracy.
American Colonization Society to James Madison. Membership Certificate
A certificate verifying that James Madison is a member for life of the American Colonization Society
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