Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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1791
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGIllustrates a poem about a woman and her child being torn from the arms of her helpless husband and sold on the coast.
ca. 1788
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn oil painting with wood frame depicting a scene of a man being captured from his family by slave traders on the coast of Africa. The central man, wearing an off-white loincloth, is held by each arm by two other men. The man on the left wears a…
late 18th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGBraided hide whip with wooden handle. A small ring of hide has been put through a hole at the end of the handle, presumably for storing the whip by hanging.
1876
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSheet music with cover with title "Slavery Days Song and Chorus Sung by Harrigan & Hart" and Cover illustrated with two seated men and basket of cotton. printed ink on paper.
2007
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA color screenprint by Faith Ringgold illustrating Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail.” The print depicts a wide expanse of a green and white cotton field under a clear, slate blue sky. Three individuals are shown in the center of…
1823; republished 1969
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA 148-page hardbound book entitled Slavery in the West Indies. The entire cover is made of a brown woven material. The front and back covers are blank. The spine reads [SLAVERY IN THE WEST INDIES] vertically and includes the Negro Universities Publishing…
1890s-1900s
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAccording to donor notes, this snuff stick reportedly belonged to Ezzie Brown, a descendant of enslaved persons on Saint Simons Island off the coast of Georgia. A snuff stick shaped like a small shovel with a long thin handle.
1861-1865
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis socket bayonet has been modified so that the point is curved into a hook. The letters "US" are engraved at the blade shoulder, just above the socket. The bayonet has a locking ring and bore socket typical of socket bayonets.
Loading image…c. 1797–1883
After escaping slavery, Truth travelled widely, using her commanding voice to campaign for emancipation, voting rights and human dignity.
Dec. 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGSeven unbound soldiers' claims for bounty are dated December 1867.
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Solomon B Taiwo (born 10 November 1990), known professionally as Adam Treasure, is an English actor best known for playing Olaudah Equiano in the Canadian series Enslaved. In 2016, he received The Beffta Rising Star Recognition Award. He joined the cast of…
c. 1808–after 1863
A free Black man kidnapped and sold into slavery, Northup regained his freedom in 1853 and published a searing memoir that became a landmark document of the abolitionist movement.
May 1773
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn edition of Gentleman's Magazine for May, 1773, edited and published by David Henry in London. Page 226 has a heading that reads "Some Account of Phillis, a learned Negro Girl." and features two entries, one by John Wheatley, attesting to Phillis…
2010
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis symbolic abstracted collage features a large, brilliantly glittered black cloud-like shape at the center of the canvas on top of a vivid red background. Above the large black mass are eight (8) white cloud-like shapes, interspersed with black…
ca. 1876
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA pamphlet containing a summary of Blind Tom's life with lyrics to songs. The pamphlet is printed on off white paper with black ink and has thirty two pages. The front cover reads “SONGS, / SKETCH OF THE LIFE” at the top with a black-and-white image of…
Biography
Sophia Burthen Pooley (c. 1772 – 1860) was a formerly enslaved African American in New York before being forcibly brought to the Canadas by Mohawk chief Joseph Brant. Her testimony, documented in American abolitionist Benjamin Drew's 1856 book The Refugee:…
mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA spade head. The head is narrow and paddle-shaped with a slightly rounded cutting edge and an elongated, hallow socket. The slides of the blade taper towards the small cutting edge. The blade is flat.
March 22, 1610
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA single sheet Peruvian Spanish language manuscript written in brown ink regarding payment for [indios alquilado] or the renting of indigenous persons and involving a [camayo] or overseer named Juan Malco. The text is concentrated on the top half of the…
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of special and general orders and circular letters received by the Freedmen's Hospital at Huntsville, May 1865–August 1866 (86), is arranged chronologically and has a name index. Some of the letters received have also been entered in this…
July 1865–May 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound special and general orders and circular letters received, July 1865–May 1868, are arranged chronologically. Most of the issuances were received from the Assistant Commissioner.
Feb. 1864
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe unbound special order received from the chief provost marshal of the district of North Carolina at Newberne, N. C., February 1864, consists of one sheet.
Feb. 21, 1866–Oct. 29, 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound special orders and circular letters received, February 1866–October 1868, are arranged by type of order and thereunder chronologically. The orders are primarily issuances from the Assistant Commissioner.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single volume of special orders and circular letters received, January–November 1867 (97), is arranged chronologically and has a name index. Most of the issuances were received from the office of the Chief Medical Officer at Bureau headquarters or from…
1865–68
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound special orders and circulars, 1865–68, are arranged by type of issuance and thereunder chronologically. The orders and circulars were issued by the Office of the Assistant Commissioner for Arkansas and by the Upper White River District relating to…
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