Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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November 18, 1876
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA print captioned “American Sketches: A Negro Congregation at Washington.” The print has been hand colored. The image depicts a man behind an elevated pulpit. He is reading a book. Another man sits beside him on the pulpit. Men in women dressed formally…
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Joshua Emanuel Coleman, known by his stage name Ammo, is an American record producer and songwriter. He has co-written and produced songs for Alex Warren, Beyoncé, Kesha, Katy Perry, Pitbull, Maroon 5, Britney Spears, Jessie J, Jason Derulo, Mike Posner,…
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Amos Gerry Beman (1812–1872) was a 19th-century African American pastor and social activist from Connecticut. He was a prominent African American abolitionist.
Dates not recorded
Amos Drane (born 1811 or 1812 - ?) was a delegate to Mississippi's 1868 Constitutional Convention representing Madison County, Alabama. He was one of 16 African American delegates at the constitutional convemtion. According to a newspaper brief, he had…
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Amos Fortune (c. 1710 – November 1801) was an African-American citizen of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in the 18th century. Fortune was born in Africa and brought to America as an enslaved person. He was given the name "Amos Fortune" by his masters.
1809–1893
Amos Noë Freeman (1809 —1893) was an African-American abolitionist, Presbyterian minister, and educator. He was the first full-time minister of Abyssinian Congregational Church in Portland, Maine, where he led a station on the Underground Railroad.
17th century-18th century
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA miniature pair of shackles used as a protective amulet by the Lobi tribe of West Africa in what is now Ghana. The bronze shackles consist of a pair of loops linked to a single bolt. There is a third loop at the top of the amulet. The bronze is covered…
1809–1856
Amy Matilda Williams Cassey (August 14, 1808 – August 15, 1856) was an African American abolitionist, and was active with the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society. Cassey was a member of the group of elite African Americans who founded the Gilbert…
1750
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA booklet containing the text of an act of Parliament reorganizing the Royal African Company as "The Company of Merchants Trading to Africa." The preamble of the act opens trade to Africa to all British subjects and specifically cites the needs of colonial…
1850
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGBlack ink on paper, printed copy of [An / Address / Delivered Before A Meeting / Of The / Members And Friends / Of The / Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society / During The Annual Fair / December 19, 1849 / By W.H. Furness.]. The publisher’s information can be…
1893
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA hardcover autobiography titled “An Autobiography; The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist; Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa,…
1784
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA booklet containing An Elegy, Sacred to the Memory of the Great Divine, the Reverend and Learned Dr. Samuel Cooper, Who Departed this Life December 29, 1783, Ætatis 59, written by Phillis Peters, and published by E. Russell in Boston. The booklet is…
1810
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA second edition copy of An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and figure in the Human Species by Samuel Stanhope Smith, published in 1810. The text is a defense of the potential of Africans and their descendents, and suggests that dark skin…
2017
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA mixed media work comprised of a rectangular painted wooden panel with a quilted fabric panel suspended below. The quilted panel ends in a curved point, giving the overall work the shape of a ship with pointed bow. The painted panel depicts a portrait of…
2017
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA mixed media work comprised of a rectangular painted wooden panel with a quilted fabric panel suspended below. The quilted panel ends in a curved point, giving the overall work the shape of a ship with pointed bow. The painted panel depicts a portrait of…
2017
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA mixed media work comprised of a rectangular painted wooden panel with a quilted fabric panel suspended below. The quilted panel ends in a curved point, giving the overall work the shape of a ship with pointed bow. The painted panel depicts a portrait of…
2017
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA mixed media work comprised of a rectangular painted wooden panel with a quilted fabric panel suspended below. The quilted panel ends in a curved point, giving the overall work the shape of a ship with pointed bow. The painted panel depicts a portrait of…
2017
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis mixed media compilation is comprised of a painted work (a) above and a quilted work (b) suspended below. The quilted work is attached to the painted panel via a strip of Velcro along the panel's bottom margin. The painted panel depicts a human figure…
2017
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA mixed media work comprised of a rectangular painted wooden panel with a quilted fabric panel suspended below. The quilted panel ends in a curved point, giving the overall work the shape of a ship with pointed bow. The painted panel depicts a portrait of…
2017
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA mixed media work comprised of a rectangular painted wooden panel with a quilted fabric panel suspended below. The quilted panel ends in a curved point, giving the overall work the shape of a ship with pointed bow. The painted panel depicts a portrait of…
2017
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA mixed media work comprised of a rectangular painted wooden panel with a quilted fabric panel suspended below. The quilted panel ends in a curved point, giving the overall work the shape of a ship with pointed bow. The painted panel depicts a portrait of…
1808
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA booklet containing a published speech delivered by Peter Williams Jr at the African Church in New York City, 1808. Booklet is bound with thread, and the cover is light blue paper with no markings on it. The edges of the pages are irregular, protruding…
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Ana Gallum (circa 1755 – 1840), also referred to as Nansi Wiggins, was a Senegalese woman who was enslaved in Florida, eventually becoming an enslaving planter herself. She was kidnapped from her homeland and brought to the Americas as a bondsperson. The…
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Anajá Caetano was an Afro-Brazilian writer who wrote about slavery, religion and discrimination. Caetano was the first woman to write a novel in 20th-century Brazil.
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