Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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David Anthony Durham is an American novelist, author of historical fiction and fantasy. Durham's first novel, Gabriel's Story, centered on African American settlers in the American West. Walk Through Darkness followed a runaway slave during the tense times…
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David Bustill Bowser (January 16, 1820, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – June 30, 1900, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a 19th-century African-American ornamental artist, portraitist, and social activist. He designed battle flags for eleven African-American…
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David George (c. 1742–1810) was an African-American Baptist preacher and a Black Loyalist from the American South who escaped to British lines in Savannah, Georgia; later he accepted transport to Nova Scotia and land there. He eventually resettled in…
Biography
David Jenkins (c. 1811 – September 4, 1876) was an abolitionist, civil rights campaigner, newspaper founder, and politician in Columbus, Ohio and Mississippi. He served as a state legislator in the Mississippi House of Representatives.
1794–1838
Rev. David Leroy Nickens (1794–1838) was a freed slave who was born in Virginia. Nickens was the first African-American licensed minister in Ohio in July, 1824.
1824–
David Medlock Jr. (c. 1824 – ?) served in the Texas legislature during the Reconstruction era. He was born in Georgia to a family held as slaves that was relocated to Texas. After emancipation he settled in Limestone County, Texas with family members. He…
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David Ruggles (March 15, 1810 – December 16, 1849) was an African-American abolitionist in New York who resisted slavery by his participation in a Committee of Vigilance, which worked on the Underground Railroad to help fugitive slaves reach free states.…
1910–2000
David Welford Williams (March 20, 1910 – May 6, 2000) was an American attorney and United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, the first African-American federal judge west of the Mississippi. He…
1796–1830
David Walker (September 28, 1796 – August 6, 1830) was an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Though his father was enslaved, his mother was free; therefore, he was free as well (partus sequitur ventrem). In 1829, while living in…
2003
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital photograph taken on Myrtle Grove Plantation in White Hall, South Carolina. The sun can be seen brightly shining close to the image’s right corner. It appears white against the photo’s pink hue, with bright yellow rays emanating from it.
1808
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA first edition of De la Littérature des Nègres by Henri Grégoire, printed in 1808 in Paris, France, for bookseller Chez Maradan. The text contains biographical portraits of fifteen prominent Black individuals, including Francis Williams, Phillis Wheatley,…
mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe debarking tool, or scratcher head, is constructed from iron. It is roughly J-shaped with a squared metal hook that ends in a rounded tip. The hook is attached to an oval tube with a V-shape cutout near the attachment point. The bottom edge of the…
mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA debarking tool, or scratcher head, used to debark trees for the turpentine industry. The tool is constructed from iron. It is roughly J-shaped with a squared hook that ends in a curved rounded tip. The hook has a stirrup shaped attachment at the bottom.…
mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA debarking tool, or scratcher, with a metal handle. The handle is long, has a rounded shaft, and threading at the top of the handle. The handle is hallow and is stoppered with black material embedded with fibers. At the end of the handle is a metal…
mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA debarking tool, or scratcher, with a wooden handle. The handle is long and has a rounded shaft. At the end of the handle is a metal stirrup shaped attachment. The attachment has a wide cutting edge. The shank of the attachment is embedded in the back of…
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Decatur Dorsey (c. 1836 – July 11, 1891) was a Union Army soldier in the American Civil War and a recipient of the U.S. military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions at the Battle of the Crater. Born into slavery, Dorsey enlisted in…
1997
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis silkscreen print depicts four soldiers standing around a single seated man. The four soldiers stand with drawn swords pointed at the seated man. Two of the soldiers, with their backs to the viewer, wear long black coats. The other two soldiers wear…
1751
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDecorative architectural element shaped like an acanthus leaf from a building in Charleston, South Carolina erected in 1751. The base of the element is a wooden rectangle, with a mounting post at the bottom, constructed from four pieces of wood and held…
19th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA decorative hook constructed from a single piece of metal. The mounting bracket of the hook is flat and projects vertically from the base. It has two drilled holes for wall mounting. The base of the hook is flat and horizontal and curves at the front into…
19th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA scrolled decorative piece of wrought iron fashioned by Peter Simmons, a formerly enslaved blacksmith. The black iron is scrolled into an S shape with the top and bottom scrolled in the same direction. The scroll on the top is smaller than the scroll on…
19th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA scrolled decorative piece of wrought iron fashioned by Peter Simmons, a formerly enslaved blacksmith. The two (2) pieces of fencing are connected at the top and bottom with two (2) screws. The fencing is scrolled outwards on the top and the bottom. In…
19th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA scrolled decorative piece of wrought iron fashioned by Peter Simmons, a formerly enslaved blacksmith. The black iron is scrolled into an S shape with the top and bottom scrolled in the same direction. The scrolls are the same size. There is a rivet and a…
Biography
Dede Ayite is a Ghanaian-American costume designer. She won the 2024 Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play for her work on Jaja's African Hair Braiding, and has received 5 other Tony nominations for costume design. She is best known for her work…
February 10, 1859
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis record of a deed of sale records the sale of an enslaved man named Cane (born 1840) by Charnell H. Durham to Benjamin F. Jenkins, both of De Soto Parish, Louisiana, on February 10, 1859. Cane was described as "of light complexion aged about nineteen…
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