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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…

A speech from an abolition meeting in New York

A written speech that recalls the problems with slavery

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

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

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference invited Rosa Parks to participate in the 1963 March on Washington.

This commemorative print celebrates the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. The central panel depicts the parade in Baltimore on May 19, 1870, the largest celebration honoring the amendment's passage. The parade lasted more…

Water color on paper, the artist titled this drawing Extracting a jigger, scene in the Brazils. A black woman is shown extracting a chigger from the foot of a white man in what appears to be some sort of tavern; an earthenware pottery jug or jar (for…

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…

Historical aspect of the system of slavery in the upper part of the United States. How it dehumanized individuals and families.