Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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1849–1908
Sara Iredell Fleetwood (1849–1908) was an American clubwoman and teacher. She was involved in the movement of black women into professional nursing, graduating as one of the first nurses from Howard University's Freedman's Hospital School of Nursing. She…
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Sara Lucy Bagby (c. 1843 – July 14, 1906) was the last person in the United States forced to return to slavery in the South under the Fugitive Slave Act. Born in the early 1840s in Virginia, she was of African American heritage.
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Sarah Allen (also known as Sara Allen and Mother Allen; née Bass; 1764 – July 16, 1849) was an American abolitionist and missionary for the African Methodist Episcopal Church. She is known within the AME Church as The Founding Mother.
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Sarah Ann and Benjamin Manson were an enslaved couple from Wilson County, Tennessee who had sixteen children. They had a marriage ceremony in 1843, but were not legally married until after the American Civil War. They were married on April 19, 1866, and…
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Sarah Gammon Brown Bickford (December 25, 1856 – July 19, 1931) was born into slavery in either Tennessee or North Carolina. In the 1870s she made her way to the Montana goldfields, trading work as a nanny for transportation. She ultimately became sole…
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Sarah Harris Fayerweather (April 16, 1812 – November 16, 1878) was an African American activist, abolitionist, and school integrationist. Beginning in January 1833, at the age of twenty, she attended Prudence Crandall's Canterbury Female Boarding School in…
1844–1920
Sarah Johnson (September 29, 1844 – January 25, 1920) was an African American woman who was born into slavery at Mount Vernon, George Washington's estate in Fairfax, Virginia. She worked as a domestic, cleaning and caring for the residence. During the…
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Sarah Marinda Loguen Fraser, née Loguen, (January 29, 1850 – April 9, 1933) was an American physician and pediatrician. She was the fourth female African-American physician in the United States, and the first female doctor in the Dominican Republic. The…
1814–1884
Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis (1814–1884) was an American poet and abolitionist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She co-founded The Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society and contributed many poems to the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator.
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Sarah Mapps Douglass (September 9, 1806 – September 8, 1882) was an American educator, abolitionist, writer, and public lecturer. Her painted images on her written letters may be the first or earliest surviving examples of signed paintings by an African…
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Sarah Parker Remond (June 6, 1826 – December 13, 1894) was an American-born British lecturer, activist, abolitionist campaigner and Italian physician. Born a free woman in the state of Massachusetts, she became an international activist for human rights…
1753-1784
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA wooden sash plane. There is evidence of older dents, abrasions, and scratches. There are drying cracks on side of plane where the wood fibers have lifted slightly. In relief on broad side of body is [BUSCH]. In relief on the toe is [CE*CHELOR / LIVING*IN…
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Sasha Deborah Turner is a Jamaican-American historian who is an associate professor of history of at the Johns Hopkins University Department of the History of Medicine. Her research considers the history of the Caribbean, with a particular focus on…
1840–1895
Sattira 'Sattie' Douglas (c. 1840 – ?) was an American abolitionist and educator. An African American organizer, she helped form and lead multiple committees and clubs in Chicago and the West. Douglas traveled to Kansas near the end of the American Civil…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of Saturday Morning Reports of Sick and Wounded (259) covers the months of March through October 1866. The entries in the volume are arranged by month.
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Saul Matthews was an enslaved African American who spied for the Continental Army during American Revolutionary War. He spied on the British, obtaining valuable information for the Patriots. As a result, Matthews was given his full freedom from slavery by…
2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital scan of an aerial photograph depicting cranes repairing a dike along the Combahee River. In the top right corner, trees and patches of grass along the riverbank are visible. The river itself occupies much of the photograph and appears deep blue…
2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is an old film scan photographed in the 80's. Not sharp considering today's standards. –Description from photographer, David Soliday. A digital scan of an aerial photograph depicting a remnant rice field in Colleton County, South Carolina. The field…
2013
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital scan of an aerial photograph depicting remnant rice fields along Horseshoe Creek near Ashepoo, South Carolina. Two of the river’s tributaries can be seen flowing from the top of the image before converging around a small island within their path.…
after 1977
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital scan of an aerial photograph depicting remnant rice fields on the Combahee Plantation in White Hall, South Carolina. The patches of vegetation in the foreground appear deep green, with small puddles of water within them appearing blueish black.…
2010
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSC –Folly Creek. I've always liked this winter scene as a perfect illustration of the loss of the defining “quarter ditches" in a rice field. Quarter ditches dug for rice fields if laid end to end would stretch about 22,000 miles. Cockfield Plantation,…
2005
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital scan of an aerial photograph depicting quarter ditches in remnant rice fields. The ditches, which run diagonally in the photograph, appear unbroken, while the surrounding grass has grey, black and brown patches.
2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital aerial photograph depicting rice fields along the lower Combahee River in South Carolina. The image has several broken rice fields in the lower right corner, appearing golden against the deep blue of the river. The winding river and fields extend…
2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital scan of an aerial photograph depicting remnant rice fields along the upper Combahee River. The river can be seen flowing along the image’s top edge. It appears blueish black against the nearby fields that have a mixture of green and brown…
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