Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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1849–1921
Prince Albert Ervin Ewing (1849–1921) was one of Tennessee's first Black lawyers, a pioneering African American attorney and civil rights advocate in Tennessee. Born into slavery, Ewing became one of the first Black lawyers in the state during a time of…
1750–
Prince Boston was born into slavery on Nantucket, Massachusetts in about 1750. His parents, Boston and Maria, were the slaves of William Swain, a Nantucket merchant. In 1760, William Swain freed Prince's parents with the stipulation that each of their…
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Prince Demah (c. 1745—March 1778) was an American painter of African ancestry who was formerly enslaved and active in Boston in the late 1700s.
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Prince Estabrook was a free Black-American man and Minutemen Private who fought and was wounded at the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the initial engagements of the American Revolutionary War. An undated broadside from the time identified him as "a…
1752–1819
Prince Greene (1752 – July 4, 1819) was a Black violinist who lived in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. In 1777, while he was enslaved by Richard Greene, he enlisted as a Private in the 1st Rhode Island Regiment to pursue his freedom…
c. 1738–1807
Hall organized the first Black Masonic lodge in Boston and petitioned Massachusetts lawmakers against slavery and for Black education.
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Prince R. Rivers (c. 1824–1887) was a former enslaved man from South Carolina who served as a soldier in the Union Army and as a state politician during the Reconstruction era. He escaped and joined Union lines, becoming a sergeant in the 1st South…
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Prince Whipple (c. 1750 – 1796) was an African American slave and later freedman. He was a soldier and a bodyguard during the American Revolution under his slaveowner General William Whipple of the New Hampshire Militia who formally manumitted him in 1784.…
ca. 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA print for the United States Postal Service Emancipation Proclamation Forever stamp. The rectangular print has a white background and is covered in text in black and red ink that reads [HENCEFORWARD / SHALL BE / FREE / EMANCIPATION / PROCLAMATION /…
ca. 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA print for the USPS Emancipation Proclamation Forever Stamp. The rectangular print has a white background and is covered in text in black and red ink that reads [HENCEFORWARD / SHALL BE / FREE / EMANCIPATION / PROCLAMATION / ABRAHAM LINCOLN / ***1863*** /…
ca. 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA print for the USPS Emancipation Proclamation Forever Stamp. The rectangular sheet has a white background and is covered in text in black ink that reads [HENCEFORWARD / SHALL BE / FREE / EMANCIPATION / PROCLAMATION / ABRAHAM LINCOLN / ***1863*** /…
ca. 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA print for the USPS Emancipation Proclamation Forever Stamp. The rectangular sheet has an orange background and is covered in text in black ink that reads [HENCEFORWARD / SHALL BE / FREE / EMANCIPATION / PROCLAMATION / ABRAHAM LINCOLN / ***1863*** /…
ca. 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA print for the USPS Emancipation Proclamation Forever Stamp. The rectangular sheet has a yellow background and is covered in text in black ink that reads [HENCEFORWARD / SHALL BE / FREE / EMANCIPATION / PROCLAMATION / ABRAHAM LINCOLN / ***1863*** /…
ca. 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA print for the USPS Emancipation Proclamation Forever Stamp. The rectangular sheet has a blue and yellow background and is covered in text in black ink that reads [HENCEFORWARD / SHALL BE / FREE / EMANCIPATION / PROCLAMATION / ABRAHAM LINCOLN / ***1863***…
ca. 2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA print for the USPS Emancipation Proclamation Forever Stamp. The rectangular sheet has a white background and is covered in text in black ink that reads [HENCEFORWARD / SHALL BE / FREE / EMANCIPATION / PROCLAMATION / ABRAHAM LINCOLN / ***1863*** /…
2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA signed print of the art for the United States Postal Service Emancipation Proclamation Freedom stamp. The rectangular print has a white background and is covered in text in black and red ink resembling a 19th century woodtype broadside and reads…
ca. 1879
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA lithographic print of Frederick Douglass. The print is hand colored. Douglass is sitting at a desk and reading a newspaper. His right leg is crossed over his left and he is looking to his right. At the bottom underneath the image is “No. 7.—Our Artistic…
1890s-1900s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe a color reproduction of a print depicting a seated woman wearing a red cap and blue dress with a snuff stick in her moth. At bottom left it reads "COPYRIGHT, 1907, J. ROYSTER" and at right: "PUBLISHED, DIXIE W. LEACH". Adhered to the sleeve on the…
ca. 1860
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA child's circular skirt in a floral print with a pleated flounce on the hem. The main fabric is a plain weave natural fiber fabric with a cream ground and a repeating pattern of small four-petal flowers in red, purple, blue, and tan. The skirt is…
1864
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis sheet of paper contains printed lyrics for "Song of the First of Arkansas." The song is set to the tune of the Methodist hymn "Say, Brothers, Will You Meet Us." The lyrics were printed by the Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Regiments. The…
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Priscilla "Mother" Baltimore (13 May 1801 – 28 November 1882, died age 81) was a Black, multiracial, abolitionist, nurse, and community organizer who was formerly enslaved. She adopted orphaned children and assisted former slaves. She is also known as the…
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Priscilla Jane Thompson (1871–1942), was an American poet and public reader. She has been widely anthologized as an example of early female African-American poetry. Priscilla Jane Thompson was born in 1871 in Rossmoyne, Ohio. She was one of four children…
Aug.–Nov. 1865; May–Dec. 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound proceedings before the provost court, August–November 1865 and May–December 1867, are arranged chronologically.
Apr. 1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound proceedings of a court of inquiry convened to investigate charges against Edward Fitz are dated April 1866.
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