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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…

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…

This picture depicts a slave uprising against his master

Drawing of a slave standing over a white man

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…

Black soldiers in line during Civil War

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 certificate verifying that James Madison is a member for life of the American Colonization Society

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…

A speech from an abolition meeting in New York