Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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1870-1913
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA waist apron of lightweight machine-made white cotton. The apron has horizontal pintucks and a fabric hemline ruffle featuring white cutwork embroidery in a scalloped eyelet design. The apron front is gathered onto a fabric waistband with fabric ties.
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Aqualtune (fl. 1665-75) was a Kongo princess who was the daughter of an unidentified Manikongo. According to the tradition, she was the mother of Ganga Zumba and the maternal grandmother of Zumbi. In 1665, Aqualtune led a force of ten thousand Kongo men…
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Archer Alexander (1816 – December 8, 1879) was a formerly enslaved American man who served as the model for the "emancipated slave" in the Emancipation Memorial 1876 located in Lincoln Park in Washington, D.C. He was the subject of an 1885 biography, The…
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Archibald Henry Grimké (August 17, 1849 – February 25, 1930) was an African-American lawyer, intellectual, journalist, diplomat and community leader in the 19th and early 20th centuries. He graduated from freedmen's schools, Lincoln University in…
before 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina. The fragment is from a horizontal architectural element of a building. It has a cement body with a decorative plaster of Paris surface layer that is finished in gray paint. The back of the fragment is…
before 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina. The fragment is from a horizontal architectural element of a building. The body is composed of a grayish portland cement with a decorative plaster of Paris surface layer that is finished in gray paint.…
before 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina. The fragment is from a horizontal architectural element of a building. The fragment has a cement body. Above the cement is a thick decorative layer of an off-white portland cement, finished in a coat of…
before 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina. The fragment is from a horizontal architectural element of a building. The fragment’s body is composed of cement. Above it is thick decorative layer that is finished in a coat of plaster with a lime wash.…
before 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina. The fragment is from a horizontal architectural element of a building. The fragment’s body is composed of gypsum plaster. On the back of the fragment are three patches of tan stucco remnants on one side.…
before 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina. The fragment is from a horizontal architectural element of a building. The fragment’s body is composed of cement. Above it is thick decorative layer that is finished in a coat of plaster with a lime wash.…
before 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina. The fragment is from a horizontal architectural element of a building. The fragment’s body is composed of off-white cement. Approximately three-quarters of the back of the fragment is covered in stucco.…
before 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina. The fragment is from a horizontal architectural element of a building. The fragment’s body is composed of two layers: cement at the back and plaster towards the decorative surface. There is a short metal…
before 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina. The fragment is from a horizontal architectural element of a building. The fragment’s body is composed of two layers: light brown aggregate filler layer at the back and a white cementitious material…
before 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA molding fragment from Charleston, South Carolina. The fragment is from a horizontal architectural element of a building. The fragment’s body is composed entirely of bright white plaster. The back of the fragment has several small patches of sandy beige…
1840–1873
Archy Lee (1840–1873), was an African American man born into enslavement; and was later part of a series of notable 19th-century court cases that defined civil rights in the state of California. In 1857, he was brought from Mississippi (a slave state) to…
1841
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA first edition manuscript of John Quincy Adam’s arguments before United States Supreme Court in the trial United States v. Schooner Amistad, 1841. The Octavo pamphlet-manuscript is constructed of handstitched rag paper, with 35 pages of John Quincy…
1841
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA first edition manuscript of Roger Sherman Baldwin’s arguments before United States Supreme Court in the trial United States v. Schooner Amistad, 1841. The Octavo pamphlet-manuscript is constructed of handstitched rag paper, with 32 pages of Roger Sherman…
Jan. 1, 1865–Jan. 1, 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Arkansas County, Ark. – Bolivar County, Miss.”.
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Artis Lane (born Artis Shreve) is a Canadian sculptor and painter. Her bronze bust of Sojourner Truth is on display in Emancipation Hall at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington, D.C. It was unveiled in 2009, and was the first statue in the Capitol to…
1872-1874
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black and white stereograph card of Arlington National Cemetery. The photographs show a view of the graves of U.S. Colored Soldiers. Many of the headstones say [Unknown]. The border of the stereograph is yellow and has maker information printed in black…
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Asa Coleman was an American politician and former slave. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from December 6, 1871, to April 2, 1873, and served on the Committee on Asylums and Prisons. He was a Republican.
1865–67
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Ascension and Assumption”.
1864–67
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Ascension Parish”.
June 1866–July 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound Assistant Commissioner's and superintendent of education's monthly statistical school reports, June 1866–July 1868, are arranged chronologically.
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