Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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1996
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis silkscreen print depicts a flotilla of ships just off a beach. The ships, some black with tan trim, and some grey with black trim, are scattered across the deep blue ocean surface. There are waves where the water meets the gray, clouded horizon. All…
1879-1884
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis silver flute was made for the performer "Blind Tom" by William R.
1879-1884
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA silver flute with two head joints, one silver and one ebony, made for the performer "Blind Tom" by William R. Meinell of New York. The flute is housed in the original instrument case.
1890-1950
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis model of a slave ship consists of a wooden hull (a), a removable deck (b), and a wooden stand (c). The wooden hull (a) is made of a soft wood painted black on the outside, with a cream border around the top where sixteen square holes are carved, eight…
Oct. 1866–Feb. 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Form Letters from Depot Commissary of Subsistence Relating to Commutation of Rations for Prisoners of War”.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound form letters from depot commissary of subsistence, October 1866–February 1867, are arranged chronologically.
Sept. 1865–Dec. 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Form Letters from U. S. Sanitary Commission, Army and Navy Claim Agency, Relating to Claims”.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound form letters from the U. S. Sanitary Commission, army and navy claim agency, relating to claims, September 1865–December 1867, are arranged chronologically.
Sept. 1866–Apr. 1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Form Letters Received from Treasury Department, Second Auditor's Office, Relating to Certificates of Payment”.
Date not recorded
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGUnbound form letters received from the Treasury Department, Second Auditor's Office, relating to certificates of payment, September 1866–April 1867, are arranged chronologically.
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Fortune (c. 1743 – 1798) was an enslaved African-American who achieved posthumous notability over the transfer of his remains from a museum storage room to a state funeral.
1890-1940
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGGrey foundation stone from a bungalow built by Lawrence B. Brown in Bartow, Florida. The stone is four-sided and narrowly tapers towards the top. The top of the foundation stone is flat. The front of the stone features embossed letters arranged in a circle…
Biography
Fountain Hughes (c. 1859 – July 4, 1957) was an American former slave freed in 1865 after the American Civil War. Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, he worked as a laborer for most of his life, moving in 1881 from Virginia to Baltimore, Maryland. He was…
late 19th - early 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGFour miniature souvenir Confederate States of America flags displayed in a black frame with a glass pane. The flags have been secured to a black paper backing with clear tape and paper tape. Along the top edge of the frame, above each of the flags taped to…
ca. 1870
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white photomechanical print of a studio portrait of Lew Snowden in a wooden frame. Snowden is depicted wearing a dark colored hat, jacket and pants. He is holding a black cane in his left arm, which is bent at the elbow. A large beaded watch…
ca. 1870
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA black-and-white studio portrait of Lew Snowden in a decorative, green glass frame with scalloped cut edges. In the photograph, Lew Snowden is standing at the bottom of a staircase. He is wearing a light-colored Zouave style turban, jacket, vest, and…
1825–1911
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (September 24, 1825 – February 22, 1911) was an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer. Beginning in 1845, she was one of the first African American women to be…
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Frances Jane Scroggins Brown (15 April 1819 – 16 April 1914) was an African American Underground Railroad station operator. Brown's daughter, Hallie Quinn Brown, co-founded the National Association of Colored Women (NACW).
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Frances Thompson (c. 1840 – 1876) was an American, formerly enslaved Black trans woman and anti-rape activist. She was one of the five Black women to testify before a congressional committee that investigated the Memphis massacre of 1866.
1979–
Francis Piol Bol Bok (born February 1979), a Dinka tribesman and citizen of South Sudan, was a slave for ten years and later became an abolitionist and author living in the United States.
1817–
Francis Jackson (born between 1815 and 1820), also known as Frank Jackson, was an African-American victim of kidnapping into slavery. He was born free, but enticed into helping to drive horses to Virginia, a slave state, and was sold into slavery in early…
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Francis Lewis Cardozo (February 1, 1836 – July 22, 1903) was an American clergyman, politician, and educator. When elected in South Carolina as Secretary of State in 1868, he was the first African American to hold a statewide office in the United States.…
1827–1905
Francisco de Paula Victor (12 April 1827 – 23 September 1905) was an Afro-Brazilian Catholic priest. He is known in Brazil as the "Apostle of Charity" for his charitable treatment of the poor. He is the first black Brazilian national to be beatified in the…
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Francisco Paulo de Almeida, first and only Baron of Guaraciaba (10 January 1826 – 9 February 1901), was a Brazilian landowner and banker. He distinguished himself for being one of the most financially successful black men in the Empire of Brazil. He owned…
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