Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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December 19, 1780
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA petition to the court of Bristol County, Massachusetts, in Taunton written by an unidentified hand and signed by John Cuffe and Paul Cuffe. The text is handwritten in black ink on the front and back sides of a single sheet of off-white paper. The…
Feb.–Aug. 1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe petitions of destitute citizens for rations, February–August 1866, are arranged chronologically. Some of the petitions or letters include lists of destitute people. Notations are often on the petition indicating whether the request was granted. Many…
ca. 1840
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA handsewn tucked petticoat with embroidered detailing. The white petticoat has a tie closure at the waist. The lower half of the petticoat has multiple tiers of tucked detailing alternating with rows of embroidered flora. Along the hem is more elaborate…
November 20, 1800
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGIssue number 3758 of the Philadelphia Gazette, and Daily Advertiser for November 20, 1800. At bottom right corner of the last page of the paper is a notice posted for [MARCUS, / One of the House Servants at Mount Vernon, / Absconded...]. He is described as…
Loading image…1808–1889
Philip Alexander Bell (1808–1889) was an American newspaper editor and abolitionist. Born in New York City to an African American family, he was educated at the African Free School and became politically active at the 1832 Colored Convention. He began his…
1842–1917
Philip H. Murray (1842 – February 17, 1917) was an abolitionist, journalist, phrenologist, and civil rights activist who spent most of his career in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he participated in the abolitionist…
Dates not recorded
Philip Joiner was a delegate to the 1867 constitutional convention in Georgia and an elected representative to the Georgia Assembly in 1868. He and other African Americans were prohibited from taking office by their colleagues in the Georgia Assembly.…
c. 1753–1784
Enslaved as a child, Wheatley became an acclaimed poet whose 1773 collection challenged assumptions about Black intellect.
1973
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGWaist-length bust of Phillis Wheatley, a mid -18th century poet. This bronze bust depicts Wheatley posed gazing straight ahead, with her left arm drawn close to her body, hand propped up under her chin, knuckles of her left hand just touching her chin. Her…
1930
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGBooklet containing a biography of Phillis Wheatley and reprinted correspondence between her and George Washington, including a poem she sent him, "His Excellency General Washington." Cover features a halftone print portrait of Wheatley in the style of the…
1915
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGHardcover book, Phillis Wheatley (Phillis Peters): A Critical Attempt and a Bibliography of Her Writings by Charles Frederick Heartman, published for the author in New York in 1915. Title page states there were 99 copies printed for the author, but…
1944
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA clothbound album with gilt stamping commemorating the christening of the Liberty ship S.S. Harriet Tubman owned by Harriet Tubman's niece, Eva Stewart Northrup. The album contains twelve large black and white photographs of the event, along with a…
1864
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGBlack leather photograph album owned by Emily Howland containing photographs of friends, family, and celebrities. The album covers and binding are made from embossed black leather with gold gilt decorations on the covers and spine. Both covers are the…
2010
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital aerial photograph illustrating soil erosion within remnant rice fields near Georgetown, South Carolina. The fields in the photograph are almost completely flooded, however, remnant canals and levees create a grid-like pattern, especially in the…
after 1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital photograph of a bobcat crossing a dike on Bear Island near the Ashepoo River. The image features green and brown vegetation on either side of a remnant dike as a lone bobcat crosses its path. The animal, seen straight ahead, looks directly at the…
after 1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital photograph depicting a canal near Cuckolds Creek, White Hall, South Carolina. The canal flows through the center of the photograph, while grasses extend on either side of it. Taller trees can be seen in the distance to the left and right, while…
June 3, 1944
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph depicting an aerial view of a crowd gathered to watch the christening and launching of the S.S. Harriet Tubman. The photograph is mounted on a black paper page of a bound photograph album commemorating the event owned by…
after 1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital photograph depicting a foot bridge on Myrtle Grove Plantation in Green Pond, South Carolina. A reflective body of water occupies the image’s foreground. Farther away, a wooden bridge can be seen above the water, connecting tall grasses on the…
2005
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital photograph of a rice barge along Folly Creek. The river, which appears sea blue in the sunlight, runs along the right half of the image. A wooden barge can be seen partially lodged in the river. Yellowing grassy vegetation flank either riverbank,…
after 1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital photograph of a disintegrating rice barge along the Combahee River. The river occupies the left half of the image, while the disintegrating barge can be seen in the foreground, partially lodged in the muddy riverbank. Yellow, grassy riverside…
late 1980s; scanned 2004
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital scan of a photograph depicting a rice trunk at Poco Sabo Plantation along the Ashepoo River. The wooden rice trunk occupies the image’s right corner, while leafless trees can be seen on opposing banks of a house pond.
2004
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital photograph depicting a rice trunk along the Ashepoo River. In the foreground, the water reflects the wooden trunk above. A narrow grassy bridge sits between both wooden trunks. The surrounding vegetation is mostly brown and leafless, except for a…
after 1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital aerial photograph depicting a flock of ducks taking flight over a remnant rice field in Colleton County, South Carolina. The flying ducks occupy most of the image and are rendered almost indistinguishable by the motion of their flight. Tall…
2005
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital photograph depicting ducks flying over rice fields on Combahee Plantation in White Hall South Carolina. It features a flock of ducks flying above marshes and a body of water. Taller trees can be seen in the distance underneath a cloudy sky.
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