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 create a national organization to bring about immediate emancipation of all slaves. The American Anti-slavery Society elected officers…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 1808, the earliest date allowed by the US Constitution, the practice of slavery and the sale of slaves…

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, She could stow this number by following the rule adopted in this plate. Namely of allowing a space…