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William H. Todd, Washington Court House, OH, finds his mother in Macon, GA, after writing to people in the South for many years in search of her.

A letter confirming a soldier's payment from war.

Lying on his stomach, the victim's hands and legs are tied to stakes while he is being whipped by the black overseer; next to one of his legs is the iron spiked collar, with attached chain, which was often attached to the neck of captured fugitive…

The potrait is of a white wealthy woman who has her arm on a book labeled history of slavery

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…

Individuals of Georgia entered the State of Florida and took enslaved people that they claimed were theirs back to Georgia.

This image shows a diagram of a slave ship used in the African slave trade.

Image description of how cramped and horrible the conditions were for slaves on ships in the Atlantic Ocean. These ships would carry 345 slaves and would sit in uncomfortable postures for most of the trip.

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…

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