Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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March 23, 1850
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA free supplement to Illustrated London News No. 418 featuring an article on page 204 titled [THE SLAVE TRADE--THE AFRICAN SQUADRON.] Article reports on the motion made by British politician William Hutt withdrawing the British government from treaties…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume surgeon's record book, August 1865–January 1867 (101), is arranged chronologically and thereunder by type of record. Included in this volume are copies of letters sent and issuances received; an invoice of hospital stores received; and…
1983
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA framed black and white linocut print titled “Survivor” by Elizabeth Catlett. The print references Dorothea Lange’s photograph “Ex-Slave with a Long Memory, Alabama,” taken in 1937. Catlett’s print mirrors Lange’s photograph. The print captures a formerly…
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Susan Paul (1809–1841) was an African American abolitionist from Boston, Massachusetts. A primary school teacher and member of the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society, Paul also wrote the first biography of an African American published in the United…
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Susan Paul Smith Vashon (September 19, 1838 - November 27, 1912) was an American educator, abolitionist and clubwoman. Vashon was active in helping soldier and refugees during the Civil War. She was part of the Underground Railroad.
1848–1912
Taylor served as a nurse, teacher and laundress with a Union regiment of formerly enslaved soldiers and later published a memoir of her wartime experience.
2008
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn archival pigment print photograph of collaged images. At center is the cut-out black-and-white photographic image of a woman and a girl standing next to each other, the woman's arm draped casually over the other's shoulder. Both wear light colored…
2023
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photograph depicting a close-up view of sweetgrass growing on a sand dune. The blades of sweetgrass appear in the foreground with the sand visible just behind. In the background is more sweetgrass and clouds in the sky. The back of the…
2007
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA bronze maquette for the Harriet Tubman memorial monument. The maquette portrays Tubman walking forward while trailing behind her are roots extending from the ground. On the surface of her skirt are individual faces along with locks and keys. Tubman…
1861-1865
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA plain single-edged model M1840 steel sword without decoration and a distinctive turned-down reverse guard. The hilt has an urn-type pommel and single branch counterguard. The keystone mark on the ricasso is an Emerson & Silver keystone. The 26-inch blade…
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Sylvester Magee (allegedly born May 29, 1841 – died October 15, 1971) was an American man who received much publicity as the last living former American slave. He was accepted for treatment by the Mississippi Veterans Hospital as a veteran of the American…
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Sylvia Dubois (c. 1788/89 – May 27, 1888), also spelled as Silvia Dubois or Sylvie Dubois, was an African-American woman born into slavery who became free after striking her slave mistress. After gaining her freedom, Dubois moved to New Jersey, where she…
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FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Synopses of School Reports Vol. 1”.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Synopses of School Reports Vol. 2”.
mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA T-square architectural tool. The T-square has a wooden blade and stock and is roughly T-shaped. The blade is inserted into a rectangular cutout in the stock and it projects downwards at a ninety-degree angle. The blade is off center from the middle of…
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Timothy Thomas Fortune (October 3, 1856 – June 2, 1928) was an American journalist, newspaper publisher, orator, and civil rights activist who was best known as the managing editor of the The New York Age. Fortune was born into slavery in Marianna,…
1866–1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “T – W”.
1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “T – W”.
1866–1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “T – Y”.
1870
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “T – Z”.
1865
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “T – Z”.
1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “T – Z”.
July–Dec. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “T200 – T289”.
July–Dec. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “T290 – T397”.
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