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Nicole R. Fleetwood (born February 24, 1973) is an American academic, curator, police abolitionist, prison abolitionist, and author. She is the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and…
1817
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGTwo editions of the Niles Weekly Register bound together. The first edition is the Niles Weekly Register no. 11, Vol. 1. This newspaper is dated November 8th, 1817. It has 16 pages. is 16 pages in length. The second edition is the Niles Weekly Register no.…
September 15, 1827
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGIssue No. 3 Vol. IX of Niles' Weekly Register, Third series published in Baltimore, Maryland. Page 42 contains an account titled [THE HORRIBLE TRADE. Communication from a naval officer of rank, emplyed on the coast of Africa" about a slave ship.] The…
September 19, 1835
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn issue of Niles' Weekly Register, Fourth series. No. 3--Vol. XIII, published in Baltimore in black ink on white paper. On page 39, under the heading [INTERESTING ARTICLES] is commentary from the Charleston Patriot regarding Virginia's role as a "breeder…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts Jesus crucified on a black cross with long, yellow nails. Red blood drips from the feet of Jesus onto the ground. John Brown stands at the foot of the cross, his…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts five corpses, four laying down and one slouched, on the brown ground. The first body at the top, wearing a dark green top, is laying with limbs akimbo. Next to…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts three men on horseback on brown land. The top left person is wearing a dark green shirt while riding a brown horse with a pistol and belts of bullets. The right…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG“John Brown worked not simply for Black men—he worked with them; and he was a companion of their daily life, knew their faults and virtues, and felt, as few white Americans have felt, the bitter tragedy of their lot.” —W. E. B. Du Bois, John Brown, 1909…
1941; reprinted 1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown" by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts Brown sitting at a table, a map and a lantern in front of him. On the proper left side of the table is a chair with a black book and red text block. Objects hang…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown" by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts Brown sitting at a table, a map and a lantern in front of him. On the proper left side of the table is a chair with a black book and red text block. Objects hang…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts John Brown standing over a table with both hands outstretched. On the table are two silver coins and two gold coins. On the wall to the proper left of Brown is a…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts John Brown sitting at the center of a red table, holding a pen and writing on a white piece of paper. Brown is surrounded by several Black men, three sitting…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts someone walking through a snowfield. Only the bottom half of the figure is visible on the right side of the print. On the left side is a brown tree. There are…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts John Brown with his back to the viewer holding a rifle in his proper left hand. Brown is standing in front of two rows of Black men wearing winter clothing, six…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts a black room with several guns, ammunition, and other weapons in it. There is a grey ladder on the left side that extends to an open window at the top, peering…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts twenty-one yellow bayonets attached to black rifle barrels in a horizontal line. The weapons peek out of a brown and tan ground with a black night sky filled…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts John Brown at the center, seated at the head of a table and praying with five other people. A book, presumably the Bible, lays at the center. Everyone has their…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts a line of seven armed men standing side-by-side, aiming and looking over a brown wall. The figures’ backs are all to the viewer, with some side profiles visible.…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts John Brown’s proper left side profile, from his waist and up. Brown is dressed in black with his head down and hands clasped in front of him, holding a red cross…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts John Brown at the center hanging by a black noose around his neck. He is dressed in black. The background is blue with a white cloud. On the front of the print,…
ca. 1860
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white stereograph depicting a plantation scene in South Carolina, published by S. T. Souder in Charleston, South Carolina. Individuals, mostly children, are seated in chairs, on benches or steps, or on the ground. A row of white cabins appears…
1861-1865; published 1890
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAlbumen print stereograph titled [No. 2594 "Contrabands" made happy by employment as army teamsters. This shows a glimpse of their first "free" home; being their winter quarters near City Point, Va.] from the series [1861-1865 The War for the Union:…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts a kneeling John Brown, dressed in black, hammering a wooden marker into the ground while surveying land. To the proper right of Brown is a black, open briefcase…
1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA screen print from the series “The Legend of John Brown” by Jacob Lawrence. The print depicts John Brown, dressed in black, sitting at a table with his back to the viewer. His head is lowered and in his hands. A lamp and black hat are on the tabletop. On…
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