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Cunningham Plantation, Old Memphis Road (Gaines Trace Road), Cherokee,...

Survey number: HABS AL-337 Building/structure dates: ca. 1849 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73000337

Mary Ellen Johnson, ex-slave, Dallas

420050. Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections.

U.S. Soldiers Home, Corn Rigs, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur Street ...

Structure is associated with the Emancipation Proclamation. See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Significance: Soldiers Home established by Congress in 1851. Corn Rigs was the summer home of Geor... More

U.S. Soldiers Home, Corn Rigs, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur Street ...

Structure is associated with the Emancipation Proclamation. See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Significance: Soldiers Home established by Congress in 1851. Corn Rigs was the summer home of Geor... More

U.S. Soldiers Home, Corn Rigs, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur Street ...

Structure is associated with the Emancipation Proclamation. See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Significance: Soldiers Home established by Congress in 1851. Corn Rigs was the summer home of Geor... More

U.S. Soldiers Home, Corn Rigs, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur Street ...

Structure is associated with the Emancipation Proclamation. See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Significance: Soldiers Home established by Congress in 1851. Corn Rigs was the summer home of Geor... More

U.S. Soldiers Home, Corn Rigs, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur Street ...

Structure is associated with the Emancipation Proclamation. See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Significance: Soldiers Home established by Congress in 1851. Corn Rigs was the summer home of Geor... More

U.S. Soldiers Home, Corn Rigs, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur Street ...

Structure is associated with the Emancipation Proclamation. See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Significance: Soldiers Home established by Congress in 1851. Corn Rigs was the summer home of Geor... More

U.S. Soldiers Home, Corn Rigs, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur Street ...

Structure is associated with the Emancipation Proclamation. See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Significance: Soldiers Home established by Congress in 1851. Corn Rigs was the summer home of Geor... More

U.S. Soldiers Home, Corn Rigs, Rock Creek Church Road & Upshur Street ...

Structure is associated with the Emancipation Proclamation. See HABS No. DC-353 for list of related structures. Significance: Soldiers Home established by Congress in 1851. Corn Rigs was the summer home of Geor... More

Destrehan Plantation, 13034 River Road, Destrehan, St. Charles Parish,...

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Destrehan Plantation, 13034 River Road, Destrehan, St. Charles Parish,...

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Phillpot House, Phillpot Road, Phoenix, Baltimore County, MD

Survey number: HABS MD-333 Public domain photograph - historical image of Maryland, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kingsley Plantation, 11676 Palmetto Avenue, Jacksonville, Duval County...

Significance: Inhabited by Timucua Indians for thousands of years, Fort George Island, as part of Florida, was claimed by Ponce de Leon for Spain in 1513. A mission, San Juan del Puerto, was established by Jes... More

Kingsley Plantation, 11676 Palmetto Avenue, Jacksonville, Duval County...

Significance: Inhabited by Timucua Indians for thousands of years, Fort George Island, as part of Florida, was claimed by Ponce de Leon for Spain in 1513. A mission, San Juan del Puerto, was established by Jes... More

Kingsley Plantation, 11676 Palmetto Avenue, Jacksonville, Duval County...

Significance: Inhabited by Timucua Indians for thousands of years, Fort George Island, as part of Florida, was claimed by Ponce de Leon for Spain in 1513. A mission, San Juan del Puerto, was established by Jes... More

Kingsley Plantation, 11676 Palmetto Avenue, Jacksonville, Duval County...

Significance: Inhabited by Timucua Indians for thousands of years, Fort George Island, as part of Florida, was claimed by Ponce de Leon for Spain in 1513. A mission, San Juan del Puerto, was established by Jes... More

Constitution Hall, 315 Elmore Street, Lecompton, Douglas County, KS

1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Constitution Hall was built in 1856, probably by Samuel Jones, sheriff of Douglas County and a notorious proslavery champion. It was a commercial ventur... More

Portrait photo of Minerva & Edgar Bendy, Woodville

420114. District no. 27. Picture no. 82. 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 Wri... More

Valmar Cormier, Beaumont, gelatin silver print

420079. District no. 27. Picture no. 225. 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

Edward House & Dependencies (Ruins), Old House Road, Spring Island, Pi...

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Edward House & Dependencies (Ruins), Old House Road, Spring Island, Pi...

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Edward House & Dependencies (Ruins), Old House Road, Spring Island, Pi...

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Edward House & Dependencies (Ruins), Old House Road, Spring Island, Pi...

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Edward House & Dependencies (Ruins), Old House Road, Spring Island, Pi...

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Edward House & Dependencies (Ruins), Old House Road, Spring Island, Pi...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Illinois political campaign of 1858. Scrapbook assembled by Abraham Li...

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Illinois political campaign of 1858. Scrapbook assembled by Abraham Li...

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Germantown Friends' protest against slavery 1688. [Facsimile].

Not in Evans.; Title.; On verso: 02-83-384.36. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 14... More

[Slave factories, or compounds, maintained by traders from four Europe...

Illus. in: A New and general collection of voyages / Thomas Astley. London, 1746, vol. 3, p. 64.

The last act of slavery arrived. The new embargo law ...... (No. 6) [J...

Lower right hand corner wanting. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 227, Folder 25.

$200 Reward. Ranaway from the subscriber, on the night of Thursday, th...

Reward offered by Wm. Russell for apprehension of the slaves, St. Louis, 1 Oct. 1847. Reference copy may be in LOT 4422-A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: BI;... More

To the people, who wish to do right! There are thousands of persons in...

Slavery. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 22, Folder 23.

White slavery. The new "Democratic doctrine." ... Slavery not to be co...

On verso: B. Fleather Esq.; M.C. #09-82-038.180. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio ... More

Sketches of Lecomptonism [no. 1], engraving, Library of Congress

Four designs for magic lantern slides, images 1, 5, 4 and 7 showing the clearing of the first settlement, the devil introducing slavery into the colony, the devil flying away as slaves are freed and whites sett... More

Lincoln in City Point, [Bartsch portrait of Lincoln].

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[Civil War envelope showing fugitive slaves working as sappers and min...

Addressed to Miss Nancy Corss, East Smithfield, Pa.; bears 3 cent stamp. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). pp/liljmem

The question settled. - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress

E. B. & E. C. Kellogg, 248 Main St., Hartford, Connecticut. George Whiting, 87 Fulton St., New York. 655.

Platforms illustrated. - Public domain scan / print

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[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...

Bar graph shows illiteracy rate of African Americans compared to illiteracy rates in eight European countries and Russia. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University... More

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...

Bar graph shows school enrollment of African Americans between 1876 and 1895. The Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900, also known as the Paris World Fair of 1900, was a world's fair that was held in ... More

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...

Line graph shows percentage of African Americans in rural and urban environments between 1860 and 1890. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the ... More

[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...

Map shows African American population distribution. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibit of the American Section at the Paris E... More

Ex Slaves - Margaret E. Dickens, Age 76

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Ex Slaves - Steve Williams, Age 82

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Ex Slaves - Gus Brown, Alabama

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Ex Slaves - Elsie Reece, Age 90

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Ex Slaves - Simon Walker, Alabama

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Ex Slaves - Monroe Brackins, Age 84

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Ex Slaves - James Cape, Age over 100

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Ex Slaves - Annie Little, Age 81

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Ex Slaves - Melissa Barden, Age over 80

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Ex Slaves - Julius Nelson, Age 77

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Ex Slaves - Hagar Lewis, Age 82

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Ex Slaves - Richard Toler, Age about 100

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Ex Slaves - Essex Henry, Age 83

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Ex Slaves - Bert Strong, Age 73

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Theodore Fontaine Stewart, Age over 90

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Sarah Frances Shaw Graves, Age 87

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Ex Slaves - Oliver Bell, Alabama

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Ex Slaves - Reverend Wade Owens, Alabama

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Ex Slaves - Martin Jackson, Age 90

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Ex Slaves - Tom Wilson, Age 84

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Ex Slaves - Margrett Nillin, Age 90

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Ex Slaves - Ruben Woods, Age 84

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Sailing over the blue waters of the Bosphorus one sees great white pal...

Photographs show hamals (porters) standing in street, Istanbul, Turkey. Negative series code written on page: C262. On page: no. 1343 (top image) and no. 1345 (bottom image). In album: European pictures (1923... More

Sarah Gudger, Age 121 during American Civil War

Born in slavery slave narratives from the federal writers project 1936 1938

Amy Chapman, Age 94 - Born in slavery. Slave narratives. Federal write...

Born in slavery slave narratives from the federal writers project 1936 1938

Julius Nelson, Age 77 - Born in slavery. Slave narratives. Federal wri...

Born in slavery slave narratives from the federal writers project 1936 1938

Ex Slaves - Phoebe Bost - Born in slavery. Slave narratives. Federal w...

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Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana Photographed by Kimball, ...

Photograph shows former slave from Louisiana with forehead branded with the initials of his owner, Volsey B. Marmillion, wearing a punishment collar and posing with other equipment used to punish slaves. Print... More

White slavery in the United States

Caption title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.

Slavery and free labor, described and compared

Caption title. Span of publication dates inferred from text. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy inscribed in pencil on p. [1]: 108; (1860); 145903. LC copy formerly par... More

Anna E. Dickinson Papers: General Correspondence, 1859-1911; Brooks, N...

Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Miscellany, 1837-1952; Drawings, sketche...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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James K. Polk Papers: Series 2, General Correspondence and Related Ite...

[House and steamboat at West Point, Arkansas]

Caption: "Hanted House by de River," as it stood in antebellum days, except the blinds. It was located on the Little Red River, near the steamboat landing at West Point, Arkansas. "Little Red River boat landing... 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

John Crawford of Austin - Public domain portrait print

Written on back: also in r.b. vol. Texas part 1, vol. 16. Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections.

Stowage of the British slave ship "Brookes" under the regulated slave ...

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