Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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October 24, 1821
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA report issued by a committee led by Juan Francisco Azcarate advocating for the abolition of slavery. The report is comprised of black text printed on two sheets of unbound white paper folded to form eight (8) total pages. At the top left corner of the…
1761–1804
Born to an enslaved African woman and a British naval officer, Belle was raised at Kenwood House and became a notable presence in Georgian society.
2012
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a river in Georgetown, South Carolina. The fields are deep green in contrast to the river flowing by. Remnant canals create irregular shapes in the landscape, some of which connect to the nearby…
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Dinah Watts Pace (1853–1933) was an American educator who founded black schools in Covington, Georgia and later founded the Covington Colored Children's Orphanage, which she ran for over forty years. Raised as a slave, she received her diploma in education…
Biography
Dinah Chase Whipple (c. 1760- February 13, 1846) was an emancipated slave who was a leader in Portsmouth, New Hampshire's free Black community. She created New Hampshire's first school for Black children.
ca. 1860-1890
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a double spouted dipper with a metal bowl and a wooden handle. The bowl is globe-shaped with double narrow spouts. There is a small shallow dent at the bottom of the bowl. The wood handle is attached to the bowl via a metal plate with metal rivets.…
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “District Headquarters in Virginia”.
Oct.–Nov. 1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “District Headquarters in Western North Carolina”.
Jan.–Oct. 1868
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound district superintendent's school reports, January–October 1868, are arranged chronologically.
1880
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis is a dividend check for 20 cents issued by the Office of the Commissioners of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company to Robert Walker. It consists of a rectangular piece of paper with both printed text and graphic and handwritten text. Across the…
1931
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA 233-page first edition hardcover book entitled Djuka the Bush Negroes of Dutch Guiana. The front cover has a dark brown imprint of a close-up depiction of an African maroon from Dutch Guiana. The spine of the book has a brown decorative print with a…
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThe single–volume docket of trials, January–March 1866 (84), is arranged chronologically by case and includes such information as the title of the case, names of witnesses, the cause of action, the proceedings of the case (including testimony), and the…
1825
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA partially printed, two-page document, from Governor Oliver Wolcott Jr. of Connecticut to Governor John Andrew Shulze of Pennsylvania. In it, Wolcott Jr. and Connecticut Secretary of State Thomas Day inform Shulze that the Connecticut General Assembly has…
March 15, 1846
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA manuscript document, one sheet of handwritten script in black ink on white paper, written by Col. Henry Ward Adams of the Virginia Militia and addressed to Capt. William C. Grasty. The document reads [I, having been requested to / appoint a company of…
September 2, 1826
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGDocument confirming the free status of Eleanor Brooks and Mary Wheaton. The document is handwritten on yellowed paper in brown ink. The document reads "On this 2nd day of September 1826 personally appears / Daniel Emory before the subscriber a Justice / of…
July 21, 1806
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA document from the Tappahannock Essex court dated July 21, 1806. The document orders that "the negro man slave Benjamin," property of Edward Rouzee, be exempted from taxes and levies. The document is signed at the bottom right by a Mr. Lee. There is a…
ca. 1860
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA single sheet document listing sales of enslaved persons, farm equipment and acreage to various buyers from the papers of Alfred Williams Morrison. The information is presented in three columns with the buyers at left, a description of property (including…
1802
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA financial document (2018.43.8a) listing "Elizabeth Roberts Negroes," splitting them up by lot and divided between heirs by the executors of the estate of Elizabeth Roberts. The document consists of handwritten black ink on both sides of a single sheet of…
1992
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis silkscreen print depicts the General riding a white horse. Wearing a long brown coat and brown bicorn hat, he is shown in left profile. Five figures in the background, wearing colorful clothing, cheer him on. One woman carried a colorful bundle on her…
1771–1838
Donum Montford (1771–1838) was an American brickmason and builder who was active in New Bern, North Carolina, during the early 19th century. An African-American slave, he purchased his own freedom with the help of John Carruthers Stanly in 1804, and went…
2004 November 5
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOG"Door of No Return" at Cape Coast Castle, Slave holding location. Original Carousel number, 1, Slide number, 38.
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Dorothy Celeste Ferebee (née Boulding; October 10, 1898 – September 14, 1980) was an American obstetrician and civil rights activist. Born in a middle-class family in Norfolk, Virginia, Boulding grew up in Boston, where she attended The English High School…
1933–2013
Dorothy Kuya (16 March 1933 – 23 December 2013) was a leading British communist and human rights activist from Liverpool, the co-founder of Teachers Against Racism, and the general secretary of the National Assembly of Women (NAW). She was a life-long…
1756–1846
Dorothy Thomas (also known as Dolly Kirwan or Doll Thomas; 1756 – 5 August 1846) was a Caribbean entrepreneur and former slave who engaged in business in Montserrat, Dominica, Grenada, Barbados, and Demerara. Having purchased her own manumission, Thomas…
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