Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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1871
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGHardcover book covered in leather with tooling on front edges of cover which is otherwise blank. Spine has bands of red and black with gold lettering: [REVISED CODE / OF / MISSISSIPPI / 1871]. On the inside cover is a note handwritten in graphite: [Scarce…
June 1, 1782
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGRevolutionary War service payment slip owned by Crippen Archer. The payment slip is printed on off-white paper with black ink. The slip has brown, handwritten text in the spaces provided for a soldier’s name and the sum of payment. The handwritten text…
Biography
Reytory Angola (c. 1626 – 1689) was a woman from New Amsterdam of African descent. Brought to the colony as a slave of the Dutch West India Company, she received conditional manumission in 1644. In 1661, she became the first person of African descent to…
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Che Armond Smith (born July 6, 1977), known professionally as Rhymefest, is an American rapper and songwriter from Chicago, Illinois. He is best known for his work with fellow Chicago rapper Kanye West, having co-written West's "Jesus Walks" (which won…
before 1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA rice fanner basket identified as being made by an enslaved person on the South Carolina coast. The large shallow, round tray shaped basket is made of reeds, rush and palmetto coiled and woven together. A faded purple string is woven through the basket on…
19th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA coiled rice fanner basket identified as being made by an enslaved person on Winea Plantation, Georgetown, South Carolina. The basket is shaped as a large shallow tray, with a short handle on one side and is made of reeds, rush, and palmetto fronds. The…
mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA rice sickle with a wooden handle. The sickle has a short, wooden handle with a curved grip and a slightly bulbous base. The top of the handle is diagonally cut. The blade is J-shaped with a serrated interior edge. The blade's tang is embedded in the top…
mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA rice sickle with a wooden handle. The sickle has a short, wooden handle with a curved grip and a rounded base. Carved on the side of the handle are the letters [W Y]. The blade is J-shaped with a serrated interior edge. Stamped on the blade near the…
mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA metal rice tester with a wooden handle. The rice tester has an elongated blade with semicircular edges and a rounded, sharp edge at the tip. It has a plain wooden handle that tapers slightly outwards from the blade to the back of the handle. The tool has…
1872–1956
Richard A. Cooper (March 9, 1872 – October 9, 1956) was an American politician in Pennsylvania. Cooper served from 1907 to 1920 on the Philadelphia City Council. During his tenure as a city councilor, he was involved in organizing Philadelphia's 50th…
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Richard Berry Harrison (September 28, 1864 – March 14, 1935) was an actor, teacher, dramatic reader and lecturer. His parents escaped slavery and settled in Canada. He performed from a young age, studied acting in Detroit, Michigan, and became a dramatic…
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Richard DeBaptiste (November 11, 1831 – April 21, 1901) was a Baptist minister in Chicago, Illinois. Before the abolition of slavery, he was an abolitionist and worked with his close relative, George DeBaptiste in the Underground Railroad, mainly in…
Biography
Richard Edward Dereef (c. 1798–1876) was an African-American enslaver, lumber trader, and politician. A member of a wealthy family of mixed African and European descent, Dereef was a prominent figure in South Carolinian society but faced discrimination…
Biography
Richard Griggs (died 1883) was a state legislator and author in Mississippi. He also served as a court clerk. He was born in Tennessee and enslaved, having had more than a dozen owners including Nathan B. Forrest.
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Richard Harvey Cain (April 12, 1825 – January 18, 1887) was an American minister, bishop, abolitionist and politician. After the American Civil War, he was appointed by Bishop Daniel Payne as a missionary of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South…
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Richard Mason Hancock (November 22, 1832 – June 5, 1899) was a carpenter and shop foreman and civil rights activist in the American Northeast and Chicago. He was one of few African-American iron works shop foremen during his era.
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Richard Preston, (c. 1791 – 16 July 1861), was a religious leader and abolitionist. He escaped slavery in Virginia to become an important leader for the African Nova Scotian community and in the international struggle against slavery. He established the…
?–1881
Richard Tucker (c. 1818 – August 12, 1881) was a carpenter, undertaker, and state legislator in North Carolina. He represented Craven County in the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1870 and in the North Carolina Senate in 1874 during the…
2017
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGBlack academic robe worn by Mélisande Short-Colomb during the 2017 new student convocation at Georgetown University. The robe has a zipper down the front and a tag identifying it as made by Jostens' as part of The Elements Collection. It is size 6 in the…
1843–1930
Robert Ball Anderson (1 March 1843–30 November 1930) was an early African-American homesteader in Nebraska. Born into slavery, he served in the Union Army during the U.S. Civil War and later became one of Nebraska's largest black landowners.
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Robert Campbell (7 May 1829 – 19 January 1884) was a Jamaican-born emigrant from the United States to Lagos Colony who wrote books and published a newspaper. Initially apprenticed to a printer he trained as a teacher in Spanish Town. Finding his salary…
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Robert Eugene Carter (February 11, 1929 – April 26, 1957) was an American man who was convicted of the 1953 murder of a Washington, D.C. police officer named George Cassels, whom Carter shot during a foot chase from a holdup Carter had committed…
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Robert "Free Bob" Vernon was born into slavery in 1832 in Rankin County, Mississippi. He cultivated cotton and later purchased his freedom. In 1867, he acquired approximately 2,300 acres of land in Roseland, Louisiana, in Tangipahoa Parish.
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Rev. Robert Henry Robinson (1824–1909), was an American minister, educator, and an activist for the rights of African Americans during the Antebellum period in Arlington, Virginia. He was born into slavery, but through the negotiation by his grandmother,…
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