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Radical Members of the First Legislature After the War, South Carolina

Radical Members of the First Legislature After the War, South Carolina

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-28044 Annotation: An African American Majority in the South Carolina Legislature. Because blacks in South Carolina vastly…

Rather Die Freemen Than Live To Be Slaves–3rd United States Colored Troops

Rather Die Freemen Than Live To Be Slaves–3rd United States Colored Troops

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-23098 Annotation: The 3rd United States Colored Infantry Regiment was the first regiment to be formed in…

We Will Prove Ourselves To Be Men- – 127th Regiment US Colored Troops

We Will Prove Ourselves To Be Men- – 127th Regiment US Colored Troops

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: decorative arts Museum Number: LC-USZ62-23097 Annotation: This is a regimental flag depicting an African American soldier standing next to Columbia…

Emancipation Proclamation

Emancipation Proclamation

Credit: Media type: miscellaneous-image Museum Number: NWCTB-11-PRDOCPI159E23-PROC95 Annotation: This is an image of the first page of the Emancipation Proclamation, the executive order issued by…

The Lost Trail

The Lost Trail

Media type: book cover Annotation: A literary phenomenon of the late 19th century, dime novels offered thousands of Americans an inexpensive and regular escape…

Wolcott’s Instant Pain Annihilator

Wolcott’s Instant Pain Annihilator

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: advertisement Museum Number: LC-USZC2-36 Annotation: Suffering man beset by demons; banishes them with Wolcott’s formula. Originating in 15th century Britain,…

Thou Shalt Tread Upon the Lion and Adder…, Declaration of Anti-Slavery Convention Assembled in Philadelphia, December 4, 1833

Thou Shalt Tread Upon the Lion and Adder…, Declaration of Anti-Slavery Convention Assembled in Philadelphia, December 4, 1833

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: woodprint Museum Number: Portfolio 153, Folder 26 Annotation: In 1833, sixty abolitionist leaders from ten states met in Philadelphia to…

Five Generations On Smith’s Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina

Five Generations On Smith’s Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-B8171-152-A Year: 1862

Former Slaves Standing in Front of their Cabin

Former Slaves Standing in Front of their Cabin

Credit: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission Media type: photograph Museum Number: Year: 1899

Large Group of Slaves Standing in Front of Buildings On Smith’s Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina

Large Group of Slaves Standing in Front of Buildings On Smith’s Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-USZ62-67819 Year: 1862

Credit: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Media type: photograph Museum Number: Year: 1862

Family of Slaves at the Gaines’ House

Family of Slaves at the Gaines’ House

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-USZC4-4575 Year: 1861

Plantation Economy in the Old South

Plantation Economy in the Old South

Credit: The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Plantation Life Year: 1876

United States Slave Trade

United States Slave Trade

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-89701 Year: 1830

Slave Auction at RICHMOND VIRGINIA [Illustrated London News, Sept 27 1865]

Slave Auction at RICHMOND VIRGINIA [Illustrated London News, Sept 27 1865]

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-15398 Year: 1865

The Africans of the Slave Bark

The Africans of the Slave Bark

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-41678 Annotation: African slaves on the deck of the slave ship Wildfire Year: 1860

The Slave Sale

The Slave Sale

Credit: Cosmopolitan Magazine [number 38, December 1904] Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: Though the Atlantic slave trade ceased legally importing slaves on 1 January…

Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes Under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788

Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes Under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-44000 Annotation: Note: The “Brookes” after the Regulation Act of 1788, was allowed to carry 454 Slaves,…

Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention

Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: broadside Museum Number: Portfolio 153, Folder 26 Annotation: Sixty abolitionist leaders from ten states met in Philadelphia in 1833 to…

The Negro Woman’s Appeal to Her White Sisters

The Negro Woman’s Appeal to Her White Sisters

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: broadside Museum Number: Portfolio 65, Folder 8 Annotation: Antislavery broadside created and published in London, 1850. With the increasing size…