Issue #543 (March 26, 1857) of the weekly newspaper The National Era with reporting on the Dred Scott decision. The newspaper consists of four pages of eight columns each. The coverage of the Dred Scott case begins on page 1, column 8 with [THE CASE OF…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.28.13.3
Issue #544 (April 2, 1857) of the weekly newspaper The National Era with reporting on the Dred Scott decision. The newspaper consists of four pages of eight columns each. The coverage of the Dred Scott case begins on page 1, column 8 with a continuation of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.28.13.4
Issue #545 (April 9, 1857) of the weekly newspaper The National Era with reporting on the Dred Scott decision. The newspaper consists of four pages of eight columns each. The coverage of the Dred Scott case is on page 4, columns 1-5 with a continuation of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.28.13.5
Issue #546 (April 16, 1857) of the weekly newspaper The National Era with reporting on the Dred Scott decision. The newspaper consists of four pages of eight columns each. The coverage of the Dred Scott case is on page 4, column 4 with [MICHIGAN CONDEMNS…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.28.13.6
A copy of The National Freedman: A Monthly Journal of the New York National Freedman's Relief Association, Vol. 1, No. 10. The white, rectangular pamphlet has white pages with black type and is bound with a white cord tied in a bow. The front cover is the…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2019.22.5
Book with The Negro Equalled by Few Europeans by Joseph Lavallée and Poems on Various Subjects, Moral and Entertaining; By Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston, in New-England. Works were originally bound together but have been…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2021.113.1.13
The September 8, 1848 issue of the North Star, an antislavery newspaper published in Rochester, New York by Frederick Douglass. The paper is printed with black text on yellowed newsprint. The masthead reads [THE NORTH STAR. / RIGHT IS OF NO SEX-TRUTH IS OF…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.151.3
This silkscreen print depicts a man mounted on a galloping white horse. Wearing a brown coat, brown bicorn hat with white plumes, white trousers, tall boots and spurs. Brandishing a sword in his left hand, he looks over his shoulder behind him while his…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2008.12.9
November 24, 1787 edition of the Pennsylvania Packet, and Daily Advertiser. The four-page newspaper is on yellowed paper with black ink. The newspaper has several creases and the edges are torn in several places. The front and back pages have…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.43.9
Hardcover book, The Poems of Phillis Wheatley, published by R. R. and C. C. Wright, and printed by A. M. E. Book Concern in Philadelphia, 1909. Red cloth cover with embossed wheel motif across top and bottom. At center is an oval roundel portrait of…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog A2021.113.1.27
A watercolor painting of a slave ship showing five crew members with multiple enslaved persons crowded on the weather deck. A Portuguese flag flies from the ship and the sketched outline of another ship is visible in the background.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2010.21.2ab
A miniature pamphlet containing the text of the Emancipation Proclamation. Seven pages with the original printed salmon wrappers. Lightly soiled, text lightly tanned. In a half morocco and cloth box, spine gilt.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.40
A hardcover book titled The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government with worn red cover. The cover has no markings, front, back, or spine. Copyright 1873. The interior cover has a stamp in red ink for the [ROOMS OF THE / Y.M.C.A.] in…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.160.176
This color lithograph on a carte-de-visite card depicts an enslaved man being sold at auction by a white man with a hat and beard who is calling out and gesticulating. The slave carries a hat in his right hand and lowers his eyes to the ground.
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2008.9.53
A reddish brown stereograph of the Slave Market, Atlanta, GA. The stereograph has two identical photographs next to each other adhered to yellow card stock. The street scene is almost devoid of people, showing a block of commercial buildings on a slightly…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2018.43.12
Volume II, Number VI of The Slave's Friend, a periodical for primary school children written by abolitionist Ransom G. Williams, published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, and featuring woodcut illustrations on the front and back cover, as well as one…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2012.46.6
This is a brown hardcover book with several engraved details. The front cover has double line impressions which follow the edges; in the center of the front cover is a line of engraved bold text which reads [U.G.R.R.]. On the spine of the book is a pattern…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2014.273.19
The October 1792 issue of The Universal Asylum and Columbian Magazine containing a published letter from Benjamin Banneker to Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson’s response. The magazine is printed in black ink on off-white paper and has a saddle-stitched…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2024.49.1
A large wall map of the United States in 1862 printed in black ink and hand colored with the major borders in red. There are many inset views, portraits of the Presidents in the borders, and thematic inset maps and charts including: Table of air-line…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2013.54
A cast and painted plaster sculptural group depicting an escaped enslaved man helping a wounded Union soldier. This genre scene depicts an injured soldier leaning against the formerly enslaved man, his head resting on the other man's shoulder. The…
Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and CultureCatalog 2011.155.289
Theodore Doughty Miller (September 19, 1835 – March 1, 1897) was a Baptist preacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the late 19th century. Before the US Civil War (1861–1865), he was a part of abolitionist society in Philadelphia, and after the war he…
Theodore Sedgwick Wright (April 1797 – March 25, 1847), sometimes Theodore Sedgewick Wright, was an African American abolitionist and minister who was active in New York City, where he led the First Colored Presbyterian Church as its second pastor. He was…
