Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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George Washington Dennis (c. 1825 – September 16, 1916), was an American entrepreneur, real estate developer, and advocate for Black rights. He was African American, and born enslaved in Alabama; he came to California as chattel during the California gold…
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George Washington Fields (April 25, 1854 – August 19, 1932) was the first African-American graduate of Cornell Law School and among the first class of African Americans to graduate from Cornell University. He is believed to be the only former slave to…
2009
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital aerial photograph of remnant rice fields along a section of the Sampit River in Georgetown County, South Carolina. The river can be seen flowing from the bottom left corner to the top right. In the middle of the image, Pennyroyal Creek merges…
January 8, 1869
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGPrinted marriage license from Talbot County, Georgia certifying the marriage of Ezekiel Leonard and Mary Hammond. The document is cream colored with printed and handwritten text. The text reads [The State of Georgia, Talbot County. / To any Judge, Justice…
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Gia Maisha Hamilton (born July 30, 1978) is an American applied anthropologist who employs methodology to investigate land, labor and cultural production while examining social connectivity within institutions and communities. Hamilton co-founded an…
Biography
Gideon Gibson Jr., (c. 1721–1792) was a free man of color in the colony of South Carolina. Gibson became an enslaver and "regulator" in the backcountry.
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Gilbert (c. 1785 – August 28, 1827) was an American man enslaved by Andrew Jackson, the 7th President of the United States. One of the affiants in the case of his death described him as a man of "strong sense and determined character." The man who killed…
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Giles Cotton, also known as Silas Cotton, (died 1883 or 1884) was an emancipated slave, farmer, and state legislator in Texas. A Radical Republican, he served in the Texas House of Representatives during the Reconstruction era from 1870 to 1873. He married…
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Gina Dent (born 1966) is an American associate professor of Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion for the Humanities Division at UC Santa Cruz. She co-authored the 2022 book Abolition.
1940-1941
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Girl sitting in front of slavery emancipation monument, Elim (Limpopo, South Africa)” (Negatives (photographic)).
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Gladys-Marie Fry (April 6, 1931 – November 7, 2015) was Professor Emerita of Folklore and English at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, and a leading authority on African American textiles. Fry earned her bachelor's and master's degrees…
1967
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGGolden Legacy Illustrated History Magazine: The Saga of Harriet Tubman, "The Moses of Her People," Volume 2. The front cover of the book features a large detailed illustration of Harriet Tubman. Tubman is portrayed with her body facing the viewer but with…
1863
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCarte-de-visite of a formerly enslaved man identified only as Private Gordon. Gordon is seated with his bare back turned to the camera. There are severe raised scars from just above his shoulder blades to his lower back. He head is facing to the left and…
1863; printed later
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA glass plate photographic "magic lantern" slide depicting the bare back of an enslaved man with multiple raised scars. The slide has a black and gold paper sleeve and is in a plain wooden slide mount. There is a short crack in the lower left corner of the…
1876
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGBook of hymns by P.P. Bliss and Ira D. Sankey, 112-pages, discolored cover with black printing, text and binding. Text reads "Gospel hymns No. 2, BY PP. BLISS AND IRA D. SANKEY AS USED BY THEM IN GOSPEL MEETINGS."
June 1865–Feb. 1866
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Governor of Virginia”.
1782–1842
Grace Bustill Douglass (c. 1782 – March 9, 1842) was an African-American abolitionist and women's rights advocate. Her family was one of the first prominent free black families in the United States. Her family's history is one of the best documented for a…
mid 19th-mid 20th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA grain scoop, or feed scoop, with a turned wooden handle. The handle extends through a hole in the flat, semi-circular wooden base of the scoop, with its terminus visible on the interior of the scoop. The handle is held in place with a nail driven though…
1866-1896
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Grand Army of the Republic medal owned by Marquis Peterson. The medal has a suspension brooch in the shape of an eagle with spread wings above crossed canons. It is attached to a red ribbon. A metal suspender attaches the medal to the ribbon. The medal…
1892-1896
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA Grand Army of the Republic pendant owned by Marquis Peterson. The pendant is attached to a bronze watch chain. The front side of the pendant has the Massachusetts state seal and motto. The back side of the pendant has the Grand Army of the Republic seal.…
2005
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA digital photograph depicting grasses in an old rice field at Brays Island in Sheldon, South Carolina. It features four rows of grasses running laterally across the image, separated by furrows in the landscape. The seed heads of these grasses appear…
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Green Flake (January 6, 1828 – October 20, 1903) was an early African-American member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and was one of the three enslaved African-American Latter-day Saint pioneers who entered the Salt Lake Valley on July…
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Green Hill Jones (December 24, 1842 - November 12, 1924) was a state legislator and Baptist minister in Arkansas. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives for Chicot County in 1885 and 1889, and he was a Republican. Jones was born in Tennessee…
1848–1914
Greene E. Evans (September 19, 1848 – October 1, 1914) was a porter, groundskeeper, laborer, deputy wharf-master, city councilman, census enumerator, mail agent, teacher, and state legislator in Tennessee. He was born in Tennessee, and enslaved early in…
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