Learn about enslavement, resistance, abolition and the struggle for freedom through biographies and historical records.
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1867–1918
Hunter C. Haynes (1867 – January 1, 1918) was an American barber, entrepreneur and inventor. He was an innovator of strops to sharpen razor blades, founded a barbershop supply company, and was a film producer and film company founder. His parents had been…
2018
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGAn acrylic painting on cotton canvas with a grey background. Centrally depicted three distinct shapes created with various brushstrokes. On each side of the canvas is a bright cloudy white cube. Bright and wide brushstrokes of red and white impasto feature…
2021
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA quilted and appliquéd textile portrait of Harriet Tubman by Bisa Butler, based on the carte-de-visite photograph portrait of Tubman by Benjamin F. Powelson (NMAAHC 2017.30.47). The quilt depicts Tubman, in multiple bright-colored fabrics, seated against…
1867
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “I – L”.
1867–69
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “I – M”.
1870
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “I – S”.
2019
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and varying degrees of indigo dye mixed with reproductions of documents related to the True Blue…
2019
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and varying degrees of indigo dye. At the center, from the upper right quadrant to the lower left…
2019
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and indigo dye. Most of the portrait is dyed in indigo with only the left vertical edge left white. The…
2019
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and indigo dye with reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Planation. The edges of the…
2019
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and indigo dye with reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Plantation. The edges of the…
2019
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and indigo dye with reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Planation. Along the right edge…
2019
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and indigo dye with reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Planation. The edges of the…
2019
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair and minimal indigo dye with reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Planation. The edges of…
2019
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGThis framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Planation. The edges of the portrait are rough.…
Undated
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “I Volume”.
1864–68
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Iberville, Jefferson, and Lafayette”.
1864–68
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGCataloged as “Iberville, Jefferson, Lafayette, Madison, and Natchitoches”.
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Ida Edelvira Rodríguez (born c. 1860) was an Afro-Argentine poet. Little is known about her life other than that she was the grandchild of slaves and she lived with mother in a conventillo in the San Cristóbal neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
ca. 1820
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA round pewter button with "TPORTER" stamped across the middle. This button would have been sewn onto an enslaved person's shirt to identify him or her as belonging to Thomas Porter II. On the reverse side of the button there are fine concentric circle…
ca. 1820
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA round pewter button with "TPORTER" stamped across the middle. This button would have been sewn onto an enslaved person's shirt to identify him or her as belonging to Thomas Porter II. On the reverse side of the button there is a pronounced concavity…
ca. 1820
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA round copper-alloy button with the initials "T*P" on the front. This button would have been sewn onto an enslaved person's shirt to identify him or her as belonging to Thomas Porter II. There is an inscription on the reverse of the button in two…
ca. 1820
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGA round copper-alloy button with the initials "T*P" on the front. This button would have been sewn onto an enslaved person's shirt to identify him or her as belonging to Thomas Porter. There is an inscription on the reverse of the button in two concentric…
ca. 1820
FROM THE SOURCE CATALOGMetal button with raised type on front reads, [TPORTER]. This button would have been sewn onto an enslaved person's shirt to identify him or her as belonging to Thomas Porter II. A circle border surrounds type on front of button. Back of button has…
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