Category:Slavery in the United States

Subcategories

This category has the following 86 subcategories, out of 86 total.

Media in category "Slavery in the United States"

The following 200 files are in this category, out of 408 total.

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  "The Slave Yankee-Fighters" Daily Missouri Republican, January 24, 1861.jpg 718 × 1,714; 212 KB
  
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  13th Amendment Pg1of1 AC.jpg 2,672 × 3,414; 539 KB
  
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  13th amendment slave labor states.png 796 × 452; 73 KB
  
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  1828 Manumission Note.jpg 500 × 340; 155 KB
  
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  1829 WNY List of enslaved labor and owners crop.jpg 345 × 423; 23 KB
  
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  1840 Anti Slavery.jpg 1,232 × 956; 382 KB
  
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  1850 Political Map.jpg 7,797 × 7,090; 8.13 MB
  
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  1853 Brimblecomb slavery.jpg 570 × 1,025; 152 KB
  
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  1857 ThomasHJones cover byTaylor and Adams.png 395 × 652; 404 KB
  
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  1860-61 Secession in Appalachia by County.jpg 1,887 × 2,393; 1.82 MB
  
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  1890sc Artwork 07.jpg 687 × 1,002; 113 KB
  
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  2008 04 27 - Bladensburg - Kingdom Missionary Baptist Church.jpg 7,140 × 2,954; 3.41 MB
  
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  2017.08.13 Charlottesville Candlelight Vigil, Washington, DC USA 8047 (36158155280).jpg 1,313 × 2,586; 1.69 MB
  
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  26 March 1836, Michael Shiner, vs Ann Howard & William E. Howard, executors of Thomas Howard, petition for freedom,.jpg 1,500 × 1,196; 278 KB
  
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  5 dollar banknote showing a plantation scene with enslaved people in South Carolina. Issued by the Planters Bank, Winnsboro, 1853. On display at the British Museum in London.jpg 4,348 × 1,954; 3.34 MB
  
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  A coffle travels from the interior to the coast.png 928 × 594; 621 KB
  
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  A List of Runaways.jpg 731 × 5,432; 702 KB
  
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  A map of the free and slave states, and of the unsettled ter Wellcome V0041259.jpg 3,468 × 2,260; 4.59 MB
  
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  A slave auction at the south - from an original sketch by Theodore R. Davis. LCCN98510250.jpg 7,900 × 5,647; 9.99 MB
  
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  A slave owned by the Society of Jesus in 1838.jpg 1,180 × 1,170; 246 KB
  
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  A slave-coffle passing the Capitol LCCN98510280.jpg 1,280 × 1,028; 254 KB
  
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  A tribute for the Negro; being a vindication of the moral, intellectual, and religious capabilities of the coloured portion of mankind; with particular reference to the African race (1848) (14741393836).jpg 3,312 × 1,914; 869 KB
  
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  Abolition of slavery in the United States SVG map.svg 942 × 595; 183 KB
  
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  Abraham Lincoln (1897) (14775323944).jpg 2,924 × 1,968; 2.91 MB
  
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  Advertisement for Negroes and Negro Slavery, by J. H. Van Evrie.jpg 901 × 1,349; 358 KB
  
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  Agriculture US South 1860.jpg 802 × 582; 229 KB
  
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  Am I not a man and a brother? Am I not a woman and a sister?.jpg 400 × 250; 38 KB
  
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  America LCCN2003690759.jpg 1,264 × 1,536; 260 KB
  
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  American Anti-Slavery Almanac 1838 page 13 April (cropped).jpg 1,721 × 1,122; 778 KB
  
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  American Anti-Slavery Almanac 1838 page 13.jpg 2,181 × 3,585; 1.14 MB
  
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  American Anti-Slavery Society.gif 600 × 789; 88 KB
  
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  An epistle to the clergy of the southern states, Grimké, 1836.djvu 2,080 × 3,616, 20 pages; 1.16 MB
  
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  An essay upon the constitutional rights as to slave property.djvu 1,747 × 2,963, 28 pages; 1.09 MB
  
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  Ann-Elizabeth Fossett Isaacs -transformed.jpg 724 × 1,080; 345 KB
  
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  Ann-Elizabeth Fossett Isaacs.jpg 181 × 270; 10 KB
  
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  Anthony Burns - drawn by Barry from a daguereotype (sic) by Whipple & Black ; John Andrews, sc. LCCN2003689280.jpg 4,334 × 5,544; 5.21 MB
  
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  Anthony Burns 1.jpg 2,169 × 2,788; 1.05 MB
  
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  Anthony Burns LCCN2003689280.jpg 1,124 × 1,536; 300 KB
  
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  Anthony Burns Notice 1854.jpg 441 × 730; 123 KB
  
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  Anti-slavery almanac 1840 detail.jpg 1,078 × 634; 441 KB
  
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  Appeal to the Christian women of the South (Grimké, 1836).djvu 2,150 × 3,288, 40 pages; 1.74 MB
  
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  An address on the annexation of Texas - and the aspect of slavery in the United States, in connection therewith - delivered in Boston, November 14 and 18, 1845. (IA ASPC0001897600).pdf 470 × 814, 55 pages; 3.59 MB
  
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  Auguste Carlier - De l'esclavage dans ses rapports avec l'Union américaine, 1862.png 400 × 600; 198 KB
  
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  Baobab 20230926 100500.jpg 4,000 × 2,252; 4.52 MB
  
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  Baobab HM 20230926 100712.jpg 4,000 × 2,252; 3.99 MB
  
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  The Barbarism of Slavery - Sumner - 1863.pdf 802 × 1,214, 92 pages; 5.05 MB
  
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  Beeville couple arraigned on charge of holding Negro in slavery on farm (1942) The Brownsville Herald.jpg 546 × 553; 70 KB
  
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  Beginning of index of American Slavery As It Is, 1839.png 1,536 × 2,048; 1.35 MB
  
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  Bethany Veney.png 500 × 656; 268 KB
  
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  Bill of sale Juliette Herckenrath.jpg 499 × 767; 169 KB
  
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  Bill of sale of infant Marie, belonging to Charleville, to August Chouteau, signed Francisco Cruzat, August 24, 1783.jpg 3,635 × 4,764; 4.75 MB
  
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  Blank manifest of slaves, ca. 1808.jpg 3,133 × 1,940; 586 KB
  
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  Blow for Blow., ca. 1863 (5573998949).jpg 494 × 800; 163 KB
  
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  Boston police and night watch conveying the fugitive slave, Sims, to the vessel.jpg 2,278 × 1,408; 1.51 MB
  
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  Boxbrown.jpg 5,351 × 3,609; 3.2 MB
  
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  Branding slaves.tif 1,033 × 599; 1.09 MB
  
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  Broadside advertisement regarding an escaped slave, August 7, 1854.jpg 6,775 × 4,838; 7.17 MB
  
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  Broadside advertisement, July 15, 1860.jpg 2,067 × 2,893; 830 KB
  
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  Broadside advertisement, October 1, 1847.jpg 2,533 × 2,113; 823 KB
  
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  Broadside offering reward of $2,500 for return of three runaway negroes, August 23, 1852.jpg 6,818 × 10,708; 10.54 MB
  
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  Burning of McIntosh.jpg 1,043 × 576; 456 KB
  
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  Butler Plantation Weeping Time historical marker, McIntosh County, GA, US.jpg 3,608 × 3,500; 12.44 MB
  
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  Cartoon Supporting the Fugitive Slave Act (1851).jpg 1,536 × 1,088; 232 KB
  
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  Charles Frederick Holder.pdf 1,239 × 1,754, 8 pages; 721 KB
  
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  Common sense (IA commonsense00ande).pdf 610 × 991, 16 pages; 591 KB
  
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  Books from the Library of Congress (IA conciseviewofsla00thom).pdf 610 × 1,020, 196 pages; 7.2 MB
  
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  Confederate 100 Dollar Note with slaves.jpg 734 × 451; 269 KB
  
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  Conference committee report on the Missouri Compromise, page 1.tif 1,627 × 2,050; 9.57 MB
  
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  Conference committee report on the Missouri Compromise, page 2.tif 1,844 × 2,050; 10.84 MB
  
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  Conference committee report on the Missouri Compromise, page 3.tif 1,877 × 2,050; 11.03 MB
  
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  Conference committee report on the Missouri Compromise.djvu 1,627 × 2,050, 3 pages; 3.12 MB
  
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  The constitution of the United States - with the acts of Congress, relating to slavery, embracing, the Constitution, the Fugitive slave act of 1793, the Missouri compromise act of 1820 (IA constitutionofun7875unit).pdf 989 × 1,670, 48 pages; 3.94 MB
  
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  Contemporary copy of letter of Barton Bates, St. Louis, to Dr. Eliot (William G. Eliot), March 28, 1863.jpg 2,987 × 4,686; 2.79 MB
  
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  Contrabands at Headquarters of General Lafayette by Mathew Brady.jpg 1,245 × 782; 380 KB
  
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  Cooley 1850 Slave Schedule.jpg 1,252 × 1,599; 294 KB
  
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  Cooley 1860 Census.jpg 685 × 834; 144 KB
  
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  Corwin Amendment ratified by Rhode Island.png 900 × 4,250; 113 KB
  
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  Corwin Amendment.jpg 2,099 × 3,071; 1.07 MB
  
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  Cotton and cotton oil 1901 page 49.jpg 3,408 × 2,042; 672 KB
  
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  Cotton and cotton oil 1901 page 51.jpg 3,408 × 2,042; 918 KB
  
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  Daily Herald 1843-12-06 (3) New Haven Connecticut Thomas Smallwood Capt Goodard.pdf 354 × 558; 32 KB
  
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  De Bows Review from 1857 (146665459).jpg 900 × 1,377; 568 KB
  
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  DemocraticPlatform1856Cartoon.jpg 1,264 × 815; 597 KB
  
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  Departure of the brig Acorn from Boston Harbor with Sims on board.jpg 2,194 × 1,291; 1.51 MB
  
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  Des Arc Weekly Citizen 1859 01 08 page 2.jpg 779 × 2,347; 345 KB
  
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  Document (signature illegible), December 31, 1809.jpg 1,887 × 1,587; 369 KB
  
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  Document signed R.W. Johnson, lieutenant, U.S. Army, April 30, 1852.jpg 1,907 × 1,233; 324 KB
  
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  Dogs attacking the Black slaves. NYPL1504991.tiff 4,440 × 6,299; 80.04 MB
  
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  E. S. Hall The Present Area of Rebellion 1862 Cornell CUL PJM 1062 01.jpg 6,394 × 8,887; 11.39 MB
  
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  EB9 United States - historical maps (bottom).jpg 2,501 × 2,000; 942 KB
  
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  Edward Fitzgerald Upshur 18 Oct 41 re R Lucas.jpg 2,178 × 2,794; 798 KB
  
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  Ellen; or, The Fanatic's Daughter.jpg 376 × 570; 18 KB
  
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  Emancipation- the past and the future (20186657008).jpg 2,000 × 1,448; 587 KB
  
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  Envelope Contraband of war.jpg 512 × 449; 64 KB
  
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  Father Abraham! (4360143984).jpg 948 × 1,536; 484 KB
  
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  Father Abraham! (4360144196).jpg 950 × 1,536; 486 KB
  
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  First Slave Auction 1655 Howard Pyle.jpg 1,250 × 1,917; 226 KB
  
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  Flickr - USCapitol - Slave Labor Commemorative Marker.jpg 1,761 × 2,266; 2.83 MB
  
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  Flora NPG.2021.33.jpg 3,806 × 4,000; 17.68 MB
  
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  Forcing Slavery Freesoilers Throats.jpg 1,467 × 930; 322 KB
  
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  Frederick Douglass Visit to Newburgh, NY.jpg 3,092 × 3,464; 1.97 MB
  
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  Free and Slave States in 1861.PNG 1,513 × 983; 67 KB
  
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  Books from the Library of Congress (IA freeremarksonspi03wals).pdf 785 × 1,304, 136 pages; 6.73 MB
  
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  From Library of Congress- "Print shows a portrait of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, whose arrest and trial under the Fugitive (32f5b651-55ed-457d-8c2e-45b46a5dcc24).jpg 801 × 1,024; 462 KB
  
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  From The Color Of Money.png 430 × 558; 536 KB
  
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  Fréderick Douglass - Mes années d'esclavage et de liberté, 1883 page de titre.png 416 × 599; 70 KB
  
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  Fugitive Slaves in Canada.png 776 × 984; 1.32 MB
  
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  General map of the United States, showing the area and extent of the free and slave-holding states, by H. D. Rogers, 1857.jpg 5,336 × 4,420; 13.35 MB
  
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  George H. Mitchell, 25th Regiment, U.S. Colored Infantry, 1864 - 1865.jpg 3,222 × 3,438; 2.48 MB
  
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  AbijahGilbert (1).jpg 134 × 179; 20 KB
  
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  AbijahGilbert.jpg 134 × 225; 23 KB
  
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  Good Old Slavery Days, The Cambridge City Tribune, Cambridge City, Indiana, May 13, 1880.jpg 787 × 3,678; 1.17 MB
  
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  Gowan Pamphlet Manumission.jpg 550 × 359; 50 KB
  
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  Growth of Slavery and Cotton in America.jpg 446 × 359; 55 KB
  
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  Growth of Slavery and Cotton in America.svg 1,024 × 768; 9 KB
  
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  Harper's weekly (1864) (14781911891).jpg 3,056 × 2,060; 1.78 MB
  
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  Harper's weekly (1867) (14595996110).jpg 2,864 × 1,924; 1.42 MB
  
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  Hiram Young portrait.jpg 275 × 379; 22 KB
  
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  Historical map of the United States, showing the area and extent of the free & slave-holding states.jpg 10,216 × 6,774; 16.39 MB
  
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  HistoricalMarker 20230926 100717.jpg 4,000 × 2,252; 3.3 MB
  
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  HJRes80 Corwin Amendment.jpg 1,983 × 3,000; 1.47 MB
  
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  I am Tituba the Witch (cropped).jpg 418 × 717; 326 KB
  
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  Illustrations of the American anti-slavery almanac for 1840 (cropped).tif 1,065 × 648; 679 KB
  
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  Illustrations of the American anti-slavery almanac for 1840.tif 3,596 × 5,473; 18.77 MB
  
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  In The Cotton Field., ca. 1863 (5553520314).jpg 491 × 800; 176 KB
  
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  In the Matter of James Hamlett a fugitive person Mary Brown Claimant, Certification-Apprehended - NARA - 278350.tif 2,217 × 2,850; 6.03 MB
  
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  In the Matter of the Application of Charles Aug. Laurence v. Josiah Hoy (and) Absalom Cline v. Allen Groff, Cover Sheet - NARA - 278373.tif 2,850 × 2,311; 6.28 MB
  
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  In the Matter of the Claim of John McPherson, Deposition of six deponents - NARA - 278343.tif 3,900 × 2,419; 9 MB
  
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  In the Swamp., ca. 1863 (5574028781).jpg 492 × 800; 205 KB
  
• Interestingnarrative 02 equiano 64kb.ogg 28 min 34 s; 9.32 MB
  
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  JamesHenleyThornwell.jpg 200 × 300; 29 KB
  
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  John Anderson (escaped slave).jpg 2,430 × 3,583; 951 KB
  
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  John Anderson ILNv38p223.jpg 422 × 466; 59 KB
  
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  John brown.jpg 180 × 233; 17 KB
  
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  John Quincy Adams Sixth President 1825 - 1829 (7222551464).jpg 750 × 1,050; 226 KB
  
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  Journey of a slave from the plantation to the battlefield LCCN98519766.jpg 4,826 × 6,026; 5.24 MB
  
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  Julius Rubens Ames My Country Is The World 1847 Cornell CUL PJM 2051 02.jpg 3,500 × 3,575; 3.48 MB
  
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  Julius Rubens Ames, Moral Map of U.S. 1847 Cornell CUL PJM 2051 01.jpg 3,080 × 3,300; 3.31 MB
  
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  KarikaturzuAbol02.jpg 1,258 × 846; 553 KB
  
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  Lady whipping slave girl 1834 (LOC).jpg 397 × 547; 107 KB
  
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  Ladys whip Nat Geog Museum America I AM exhibit Wash DC.jpg 768 × 1,024; 425 KB
  
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  La emancipacion de los esclavos en los Estados-Unidos (IA laemancipacionde00labr).pdf 616 × 943, 96 pages; 3.99 MB
  
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  Law Prohibiting Negroes From the Practice of Physic.jpg 1,424 × 620; 682 KB
  
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  Lee Surrendered, Albany Journal, 10 Apr 1865.png 2,418 × 1,778; 9.31 MB
  
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  La emancipacion de los esclavos en los Estados-Unidos (IA lemancipaciondel00labrrich).pdf 656 × 1,102, 92 pages; 5.74 MB
  
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  Letter from D. P. Grier, Lexington, Ky., to Anna McKinney, October 28, 1862.jpg 3,117 × 5,029; 3.86 MB
  
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  Letter signed Park Woodward, New London, to Thomas Jefferson, November 28, 1803.jpg 2,281 × 3,712; 2.09 MB
  
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  Letter signed Sarah (Sarah Lane Glasgow), St. Louis, to Ann E. Lane, Pittsburgh, February 4, (1852?).jpg 4,769 × 6,129; 7.67 MB
  
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  Letter signed T.F. Smith, near Prairie du Chien, to Henry Chouteau, January 28, 1830.jpg 4,966 × 6,126; 8.33 MB
  
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  Letter signed Tho. Swords (Thomas Swords), New York, to Major John Dougherty, June 25, 1856.jpg 4,724 × 5,917; 5.58 MB
  
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  Letter to my Old Master, from Jordan Anderson.jpg 713 × 799; 233 KB
  
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  Liberty-canon.jpg 2,460 × 1,901; 1.08 MB
  
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  Lincoln's Last Warning, October 1862.jpg 1,325 × 1,455; 453 KB
  
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  United States Slavery Map 1860.jpg 1,903 × 1,146; 455 KB
  
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  Map of African Burial Ground.jpg 738 × 900; 97 KB
  
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  Map of Free and Slave States.jpg 2,237 × 1,995; 3.01 MB
  
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  Map of the southern states showing the relative proportion of slaves in the different localities. (9475548932).jpg 9,480 × 6,110; 5.94 MB
  
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  Map-usa-juneteenth.svg 1,114 × 595; 126 KB
  
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  Marais-massacre.jpg 1,332 × 547; 279 KB
  
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  Maria Perkins letter.jpg 840 × 1,024; 458 KB
  
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  Mary, a woman of color v. General W. Johnston, 1821, Knox County, Indiana Circuit Court.jpg 342 × 600; 100 KB
  
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  Memoirs of the Lives of Benjamin Lay and Ralph Sandiford.pdf 643 × 1,125, 94 pages; 4.59 MB
  
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  Memoirs of the Lives.djvu 2,148 × 3,756, 94 pages; 2.82 MB
  
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  Memorial plaque 1870.jpg 3,872 × 2,592; 2.23 MB
  
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  Memorial Plaque 20230926 100725.jpg 4,000 × 2,252; 3.79 MB
  
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  Memorial to Frederick Douglass 1870 visit to Newburgh.jpg 3,484 × 2,295; 1.74 MB
  
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  Montgomery Weekly Post, 18 July 1860.jpg 1,059 × 370; 150 KB
  
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  MotherlessChild1899.jpg 325 × 455; 35 KB
  
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  Motion offered by John Quincy Adams to amend the House Journal to include his statement that the recently passed "gag... - NARA - 306599.jpg 1,614 × 2,000; 501 KB
  
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  Motion offered by John Quincy Adams to amend the House Journal, 05-27-1836 (6537468955).jpg 2,400 × 2,974; 465 KB
  
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  Murdered at Dallas, Olivewood Cemetery, Houston, Texas 0505101342BW (4589703965).jpg 1,525 × 2,341; 1.68 MB
  
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  Naid 20143509078 Slave Payroll for Grenada, Mississippi, May 1862.jpg 7,239 × 5,339; 6.32 MB
  
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  Narrative of Phebe Ann Jacobs - first page.jpg 1,000 × 1,640; 1.07 MB
  
• Narrativeofthelife 04 douglass 64kb.ogg 9 min 5 s; 2.68 MB
  
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  Nashville Convention.jpg 1,500 × 2,179; 505 KB
  
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  Nat Turner revamp.png 460 × 258; 221 KB
  
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  National Anti-Slavery Standard Newspaper January 7, 1841.jpg 5,142 × 7,191; 4.95 MB
  
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  Nautilus Mutual Life Slave Policies.jpg 675 × 277; 58 KB
  
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  Negroes for Sale - New Orleans Crescent - January 10 1861.jpg 658 × 1,941; 412 KB
  
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  Newspaper icon used in runaway slave ads or to indicate other slavery content.jpg 750 × 913; 322 KB
  
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  NMM by Richard Symonds 07.JPG 3,888 × 2,592; 2.73 MB
  
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  Now ready - American slavery justified LCCN2001699894.jpg 3,293 × 4,096; 1.98 MB
  
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  Nypl.digitalcollections.ea7997f0-2657-0132-1964-58d385a7b928.001.v.jpg 2,560 × 1,475; 643 KB
  
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  Johnston's map of the United States of North America (NYPL b20643931-5564119).jpg 8,928 × 6,986; 58.21 MB
  
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  One hour of American slavery is fraught with more misery than ages of that which we rose in rebellion to oppose. (7645378774).jpg 1,044 × 1,500; 406 KB
  
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  Pamphlet- "Opinion of Attorney General Bates (Edward Bates) on Citizenship," printed in Washington by the Government Printing Office, 1862.jpg 1,706 × 2,681; 335 KB
  
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  Pario.jpg 1,080 × 1,920; 680 KB
  
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  Percent slave labor in the United States.svg 750 × 560; 10 KB
  
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  Perry County Tennessee Runaway Slave.jpg 1,194 × 1,549; 464 KB
  
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  Petition of Billy Tarlton to the court of common pleas in St. Louis County, September 22, 1813.jpg 2,000 × 2,353; 488 KB
  
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  Phillis Shiner & Thomas Smallwood Ebenezer Methodist church class no 16 1836.jpg 2,088 × 1,554; 1.29 MB
  
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  Photographs of Senators who voted "Aye" on the resolution submitting to the legislatures of the several states a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States as to prohibit LCCN2004681686.jpg 5,026 × 5,864; 3.28 MB
  
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  Plantation de canne à sucre. NY Public Library, digital collections.jpg 533 × 663; 197 KB
  
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  Plantation Slaves, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862.tif 4,729 × 5,120; 16.51 MB
  
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  Plantation Jim, and the freedom which he obtained (IA plantationjimfre00mudg).pdf 675 × 1,062, 198 pages; 11.01 MB
  
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  Portrait of an African American woman with a white baby, ca. 1850s (cropped).jpg 1,489 × 1,808; 433 KB
  
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  Price, Birch & Co. slave pen Alexandria, VA (cropped).png 1,213 × 891; 750 KB
  
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  Price, Birch & Co. slave pen Alexandria, VA.png 2,288 × 940; 1.2 MB
  
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  Prices of slaves noted in pencil on slave sale broadside with listing of names, ages and special skills.jpg 656 × 968; 174 KB