The election, a medley, humbly inscribed to Squire Lilliput, professor...
Cartoon shows the old courthouse in Philadelphia during the October 1, 1764 election where a line of men wait at the steps on the right to enter the courthouse and cast their votes; in the foreground, many men,... More
General mourning, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon
Print shows a well-dressed West Indian? couple with big smiles on their faces, in the background is a depressed man (a plantation owner?) holding a piece of paper on which is written "No more credit given by [?... More
Title page of a pamphlet: A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery ...
Illus. in: A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States, without Danger or Loss to the Citizens of the South (Baltimore: Benj. Lundy, 1825), title page. Reference copy may be in LCQJ, Spring... More
Bobalition of slavery - Public domain portrait print
Another in the series of "bobalition" broadsides, marking the July 14 celebration of the anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. (See no. 1819-2). The text, facetiously dated "Uly 14teenth 18 hundred ... More
Abduhl Rahhahman / H. Inman, Esqr, N.A., del. ; T. Illman, sculp.
Portrait of a West African prince known as Ibrahima, Prince of Slaves, and Abdu-l-Rahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori. He was captured as a war prisoner and became a slave in the United States for 40 years. He was freed in... More
Ladies whipping girls. Book illustration from Library of Congress
A white woman whipping a slave girl. Illus. in: Picture of slavery in the United States of America / George Bourne. Middletown, Conn. : E. Hunt, 1834, p. 109. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-3.
The Secretary of War presenting a stand of colours to the 1st Regiment...
A bitter vilification of the Van Buren administration's use of bloodhounds to hunt fugitive Indians during the Second Seminole War in Florida. The artist condemns the racism and inhumanity of the measure, as w... More
Matty meeting the Texas question, Political Cartoon
A satire on the Democrats' approach to the delicate question of the annexation of Texas. In marked contrast to his portrayal of the issue as a beautiful woman in "Virtuous Harry" (no. 1844-27), the artist here ... More
The Massachusetts hoar, outwitted, or hopping-John, and Johnny-cake, f...
An imaginative but puzzling commentary on sectional tensions over slavery between New England abolitionists and southern agrarian slaveholders. In his sweeping satire the artist also portrays a considerable hos... More
Philanthropic Consolations, after the loss of the Slave-Bill
William Wilberforce and Samuel Horsley, Bishop of Rochester, cavort with two black women in a well-furnished room. Wilberforce and a woman, wearing a print dress with her breasts exposed, sit on a couch smoking... More
Scene in Uncle Sam's Senate. 17th April 1850
A somewhat tongue-in-cheek dramatization of the moment during the heated debate in the Senate over the admission of California as a free state when Mississippi senator Henry S. Foote drew a pistol on Thomas Har... More
Slave of Richard Townsend / W.H. Ingram's Photograph and Ferrotype Gal...
Photo shows an elderly African American man, three-quarter length portrait, wearing coat and top hat, seated, facing front, with right hand resting on the handle of a bow saw that he holds between his legs. In... More
The great presidential race of 1856.
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Storming the castle. "Old Abe" on guard.
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
"Jewels" found at Alexandria, by the Federal Army; consisting of chain...
Picture shows shackles, leg irons and handcuffs. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: Envelope 11; leg and arm slave shackles. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.231)
The Dis-United States. Or the Southern Confederacy
The Confederate leaders are portrayed as a band of competing opportunists led by South Carolina governor and secessionist Francis Pickens (far left). The artist criticizes the January 1861 secession of five sta... More
Drayton's negro quarters, Hilton Head, S.C.
Photograph shows soldiers and slaves in front of the slave quarters on Drayton's plantation. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.271).
Negroes driven south by the Rebel officers
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1862 Nov. 8, pp. 712-713. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
![[Preliminary emancipation proclamation.] during American Civil War](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjIvMDEvMDEvcHJlbGltaW5hcnktZW1hbmNpcGF0aW9uLXByb2NsYW1hdGlvbi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/53/webp "[Preliminary emancipation proclamation.] during American Civil War")
Seabrook's negro quarters. 19th century, Library of Congress collectio...
Photograph shows an aerial view of the slave quarters at Seabrook's Plantation.
Gordon as he entered our lines. Gordon under medical inspection. Gordo...
Gordon, a runaway slave from Mississippi, in tattered clothes; bare back showing scars; and in Union Civil War uniform. From photographs by McPherson & Oliver. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1863 July 4, p. 429, bottom.
Stephen's varieties No. 3: The slave in 1863
Envelope for collectors cards showing Afro-American soldier holding bayoneted rifle. Copyright by William A. Stephens.
Freedom's immortal triumph! Finale of the Jeff Davis Die-nasty." Las...
A vindictive Northern fantasy on the aftermath of the Civil War. Confederate president Jefferson Davis, dressed in a hoopskirt or crinoline, hangs from a "Sour Apple Tree" at left, a Bowie knife in one hand and... More
A proper family re-union, Confederate States of America.
A biting cartoon showing Confederate president Jefferson Davis in league with both the devil and Revolutionary War traitor Benedict Arnold. Arnold and Davis stir a cauldron of "Treason Toddy," a brew into whic... More
The end of the rebellion in the United States, 1865 / C. Kimmel.
A sequel to Kimmel's grand image "The Outbreak of the Rebellion in the United States" (no. 1865-19), issued the year before. The artist depicts in symbolic terms the downfall of the Confederacy. Columbia, crown... More
Selling a freedman to pay his fine, at Monticello, Florida / from a sk...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1867 Jan. 19, p. 273.
![The modern Medea - the story of Margaret Garner [Margaret Garner, a slave who escaped from Kentucky to Ohio; her 4 children, 2 of which she killed so they would not have to endure slavery, lying dead on floor; and 4 men who pursued her]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjcvMDEvMDEvdGhlLW1vZGVybi1tZWRlYS10aGUtc3Rvcnktb2YtbWFyZ2FyZXQtZ2FybmVyLW1hcmdhcmV0LWdhcm5lci1hLXNsYXZlLXdoby1lc2NhcGVkLTY0MC5qcGc%3D/40/26/webp "The modern Medea - the story of Margaret Garner [Margaret Garner, a slave who escaped from Kentucky to Ohio; her 4 children, 2 of which she killed so they would not have to endure slavery, lying dead on floor; and 4 men who pursued her]")
The modern Medea - the story of Margaret Garner [Margaret Garner, a sl...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Ohio, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The First cotton-gin / drawn by William L. Sheppard.
African American slaves using cotton gin. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1869 Dec. 18, p. 813.
A bold stroke for freedom. 19th century, Library of Congress collectio...
African-Americans with wagon pointing guns at slave-catchers. Illus. in: William Still, The Underground Railroad (1872) p. 125. Ref. copy may be in P&P Ref. - E185.H83 1963 (p. 130). This record contains unveri... More
Frederick Douglass C.F. Conly Photographer, 465 Washington St., Boston
Photograph shows reproduction of portrait by George Kendall Warren taken in 1876. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2016; (DLC/PP-2017:171, formerly deposit D072) Forms part of: Liljenquist Family Collection of Civil War... More
The Georgia Negro A social study / / By W. E. Burghardt Du Bois.
Diagram shows routes of the African slave trade with state of Georgia starred. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of the American Section at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 to show the ec... More
![[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the descendants of former African slaves now in residence in the United States of America] Crime among American Negroes.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTgvYS1zZXJpZXMtb2Ytc3RhdGlzdGljYWwtY2hhcnRzLWlsbHVzdHJhdGluZy10aGUtY29uZGl0aW9uLW9mLXRoZS1kZXNjZW5kYW50cy1kMmJlZDgtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/50/webp "[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the descendants of former African slaves now in residence in the United States of America] Crime among American Negroes.")
[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...
Bar graph shows number of African American prisoners in jails and the types of crimes they committed. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Ne... More
The political uncle tommers / Kep., Political Cartoon
Illustration shows Benjamin R. Tillman as "Simon Legree", whipping a black man labeled "Negro Voter". Caption: Simon Legree Tillman Don't I own you, body and soul, you black dog? / Uncle Tom Yuh may own mah... More
Convention of former slaves, Wash., D.C.
Two elderly African American women. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. Photo shows, left to right, Elizabeth Berkeley and Sadie Thompson (based on identification provided in ima... More
SLAVES REUNION. LEWIS MARTIN, AGE 100; MARTHA ELIZABETH BANKS, AGE 104...
A black and white photo of a group of people. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Maugan Shepherd, Age over 80
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Nathan Beauchamp, Age about 92
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Fannie Brown, Texas
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Andrew Moody and wife Tildy, Age 82
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Abram Sells, Age over 80
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - La San Mire, Age 86
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Anne Clark, Age 112
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Will Daily, Age 79
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Josh Miles, Age 78
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Clarissa Scales, Age 79
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Wash Ingram, Age 93
Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer, 1930s, 20th-century dust bowl era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Ex Slaves - Felix Haywood, Age 92
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Cato Carter, Age about 100
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Tiney Shaw, Age 76
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Donaville Broussard, Age 87
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Hattie Anne Nettles, Age 80
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Susan Merritt, Age 87
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Milly Henry, Age 82
Public domain photograph of statue, sculpture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Anderson Whitted, Age 89
Public domain photograph - historical image of Indiana, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Emma Crockett, Age about 80
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
King Cotton and his slaves, Greenwood, Miss.
Photograph shows three African American men and one boy posed with horse-drawn wagon loaded with bales of cotton in front of the Leflore County courthouse. C. E. Gillespie & Co.
Age has not dimmed Mammy Prater's love for sweets
Photograph shows elderly woman, an ex-slave, wearing heavy shawl and cap sitting outside in rocking chair holding small paper bag and candy in her hands.
Ex Slaves - Mariah Snyder, Age 89
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - John James, Age 78
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Adora Rienshaw, Age 92, Israel
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
W. L. Bost, Age 88 - A black and white photo of an old man
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Ex Slaves - Sam Kilgore, Age 92
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Emma Watson, Age about 85
Born in slavery slave narratives from the federal writers project 1936 1938
Ben Horry, Age 85 - Born in slavery. Slave narratives. Federal writers...
Born in slavery slave narratives from the federal writers project 1936 1938
Ex Slaves - Jordon Smith, Age 86
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Millie Ann Smith, Age 87
Public domain photograph of a woman, female portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Mazique Sanco, Age 88
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Richard and Drucilla Martin, Ages 92 and 102
Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
William Colbert, Age 93 - Born in slavery. Slave narratives. Federal w...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Charity Grigsby, Age 85
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Briscoe house seen from south. It was an old plantation home now inhab...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a tower, column, chimney, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
"Crispus Attucks," by Herschel Levit, mural at the Recorder of Deeds b...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of District of Columbia Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress, Pr... More
The fugitive's song - Public domain print
A sheet music cover illustrated with a portrait of prominent black abolitionist Frederick Douglass as a runaway slave. Douglass flees barefoot from two mounted pursuers who appear across the river behind him w... More
White slavery in the United States
Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
James Green, ex-slave, San Antonio
420118. District no. 27. Picture no. 181. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wr... More
Copy of a letter from Benjamin Banneker to the secretary of state, wit...
Letter to Thomas Jefferson, transmitting a copy of the writer's almanac and discussing the subject of slavery. Signatures: [A]² B-D². Evans 24073 Jefferson's reply, dated August 30, 1791: p. 11-12. Account of t... More
Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: 1975 Addition, 1821-1924; Subject file; ...
Public domain scan of a architecture diagram, settlement map, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cyrus Gates House, Old Nanticoke Road, Maine, Broome County, NY
Significance: A late Greek Revival farmhouse of good exterior design associated with the "underground railroad" and the harboring of fugitive slaves in years preceding the Civil War. Survey number: HABS NY-55... More
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bill and Ellen Thomas, ex-slaves, Hondo
420066. District no. 27. Picture no. 12. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(1)(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal ... More
Dr. John H. Drish House, 2300 Seventeenth Street, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloo...
Significance: Once a remarkable example of eclectic combination of Greek Revival and Italianate elements. John R. Drish, builder-owner, was Tuscaloosa physician and erstwhile building contractor, owner of skil... More
Dr. John H. Drish House, 2300 Seventeenth Street, Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloo...
Significance: Once a remarkable example of eclectic combination of Greek Revival and Italianate elements. John R. Drish, builder-owner, was Tuscaloosa physician and erstwhile building contractor, owner of skil... More
![[Rear view of woman washing clothes]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTAvMDEvcmVhci12aWV3LW9mLXdvbWFuLXdhc2hpbmctY2xvdGhlcy0xYWZkZTctMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/28/webp "[Rear view of woman washing clothes]")
[Rear view of woman washing clothes]
230015. Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections.
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
Public domain scan of American Civil War document, Confederates, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The speech of Charles Jas. Faulkner, (of Berkeley) in the House of del...
With: Bolling, Philip A. The speeches of Philip A. Bolling ... Richmond, 1832. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Phillis Wheatley, Negro servant to Mr. John Wheatley, of Boston
Phillis Wheatley, half-length portrait, seated at desk with pen and paper, facing left. Illus. in: Poems on various subjects, religious and moral / Phillis Wheatley. London : Printed for A. Bell, bookseller, Al... More
Nursery at Elliott's, Hilton Head, S.C. / photographed and for sale by...
Photograph shows slaves sitting in front of a building described as the "nursery". Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV59; children's nursery. "GA 687" written in pencil on back of the mount. Handwritte... More
Mose Hursey, ex-slave, Dallas - Public domain portrait print
420226. District no. 27. Picture no. 579. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wri... More
Address Delivered on the 26th Anniversary of the Abolition of Slavery ...
You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More
Joseph Fry Farm Landscape, 2153 South County Trail Road (U.S. Route 2)...
Significance: Fry's Hamlet Historic District is an important collection of three farmsteads, the Joseph Fry Farm, the Spencer-Fry Farm, and the Spencer-Bailey Farm. The buildings and lands which comprise the J... More
The slavery code of the District of Columbia, together with notes and ...
"The first section contains the acts of Congress. The second section, the old Maryland laws in regard to slavery, in force in the District of Columbia at the time of its cession by Maryland to the Federal gover... More
Lula Wilson, ex-slave, Dallas - Public domain portrait print
420247. District no. 27. Picture no. 617. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(1). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writ... More
Portrait photo of Louise Evans, gelatin silver print
320180. Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections.