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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

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

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

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

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).

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

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

General Gordon and the slave hunters of Darfour

General information about the Popular and Applied Graphic Art print materials is available at: loc.gov Title information compiled by Junior Fellows, 2005-2017. Stanley-Berkeley, printer. Category designation on... 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 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

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...

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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.

Briscoe house seen from south. It was an old plantation home now inhab...

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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

The War will soon be o'er - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Willis Winn, Marshall, gelatin silver print

Photo shows Willis Winn standing outside of log cabin next to a slave horn. 420044. District no. 27. Picture no. 445. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African... More

[Slave quarters on a plantation, possibly in Beaufort, South Carolina]

Photograph shows African Americans standing next to the slave houses, Port Royal, South Carolina. (Source: similar Brady negative: LC-B811-211 and researcher M. P. Higgins, 2018) Photographer name from negativ... More

The last offer of reconciliation in remembrance of Prest. A. Lincolns....

A sentimentalized allegory "Dedicated to the Memory of our most lamented late President Abraham Lincoln" of the reconciliation of the North and South after the Civil War. Kimmel and Forster also produced two si... More

A group of "contrabands" - 19th century Virginia.

Stereograph showing a group of slaves including men, women and children gathered outside a building at the Foller Plantation in Cumberland Landing, Pamunkey Run, Virginia. No. 383. Part of series: The War for t... More

Thirty years a slave. From bondage to freedom. The institution of slav...

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Augustus W. Bradford to Montgomery Blair, Thursday, May 12, 1864 (Imp...

Port Royal, South Carolina. Slaves quarters

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Wilson, Charley, Rebecca & Rosa, slaves from New Orleans / Chas. Paxso...

Photograph shows a group portrait of freed slaves from New Orleans, Wilson Chinn, Charles Taylor, Rebecca Huger, and Rosina Downs reading. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackab... More

Report of the trials in the Echo cases, in federal court, Charleston, ...

"The cases of the prisoners taken on board the brig Echo, charged with the crime of piracy, for a violation of the laws of the United States in suppression of the foreign slave trade, came on for trial in the C... More

Cabins where slaves were raised for market--The famous Hermitage, Sava...

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The Negro emancipation song - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Anthony Burns / drawn by Barry from a daguereotype [sic] by Whipple & ...

Print shows a portrait of the fugitive slave Anthony Burns, whose arrest and trial under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 touched off riots and protests by abolitionists and citizens of Boston in the spring of 18... More

The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of th...

One of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment, and showing the parade celebrating it which was held in Baltimore on May 19 the same year. The amen... More

What's de matter, Uncle Sam? - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Family record. Before the war and since the war / Krebs Lithographing ...

A chart exhibiting two farms, contrasting slavery with freedom in connection with a family record. "Designed for the colored people of America by W. H. Cowell, Martin, Tennessee." Copyright no. 9131L.

Marse George lead her out on de porch

(DLC/PP-1933:0011). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: In Ole Virginia / Thomas Nelson Page. New York : Charles Scribner's sons, 1895, p. 69.

Gabriel blows the trumpet - American Civil War sheet music

Music associated with the Union side

Emancipation / G. G. Fish, pinx. ; J.P. Soule, photo.

Photograph shows a woman (Columbia) holding a document (the Declaration of Emancipation?) standing between two kneeling slaves. The slave to her left, a man, holds a U.S. flag; the slave to her right, a woman, ... More

[Uncle Tom's cabin] - Victorian era public domain image

"A.S. Seer's Print, N.Y. (copyrighted)." Created by A.S. Seers Print. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Life of George Washington--The farmer / painted by Stearns ; lith. by ...

Washington standing among African-American field workers harvesting grain; Mt. Vernon in background. Reference copy in Presidential File. Reference copy in Lot 4434 B.

Rosa, Charley, Rebecca, slave children from New Orleans / Chas. Paxson...

Photograph shows freed slaves, Rosina Downs, Charley Taylor, and Rebecca Huger, each wrapped in a portion of the U.S. flag. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberry, in the Cl... More

Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /

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Grand bobalition, or "Great anniversary fussible"

Another in the "bobalition" series of broadsides parodying the manners, illiteracy, and dialect of Boston blacks. (See no. 1819-2.) The illustration shows a black militia troop marching from left to right. The ... More

Emancipation. And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid...

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Nursery at Elliot's Plantation, Hilton Head, S.C.

Photograph shows slaves sitting in from of a building described at the "nursery". Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Edge loss on the upper right corner of the mount. Title is inscribed in ink on the f... More

[2nd South Carolina Infantry Regiment raid on rice plantation, Combahe...

Top illustration shows slaves escaping to a Union ship as buildings burn in the distance. Three bottom illustrations show an escaped slave in tattered clothing upon his crossing of Union lines, welts from being... More

Whitaker family / photographed by J.A. Palmer, Aiken, S.C.

Photo shows a large African American family of mostly women and children, gathered around the porch of a log and clapboard cabin, with wood shingle roof and stone chimney, and a large cauldron in the foreground... More

[John Brown, 1800-1859, bust portrait, facing right in memorial frame]

Frame includes words "The Just man shall be in eternal remembrance -- Gave his life for the liberation of the slave."

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

Line graph shows percentage of African Americans in slavery between 1790 and 1870. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibit of the ... More

[The Georgia Negro] Slaves and free Negroes. - Exposition Universelle ...

Graph shows percentage of enslaved African Americans compared to free African Americans from 1790 to 1870. Title from LOT 11931, no. 1; part title from item. Chart prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of t... More

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

Bar graph shows percentage of African Americans enrolled in public schools between 1876 and 1896. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro ... More

Negroes at Gees Bend, Alabama. Descendants of former slaves of the Pet...

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Negroes at Gees Bend, Alabama. Descendants of slaves of the Pettway pl...

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A serviceable garment--or reverie of a bachelor

Democratic presidential candidate James Buchanan is depicted as a poor bachelor in his squalid quarters. Though indeed a confirmed bachelor, Buchanan in reality was hardly needy. After serving as American minis... More

John Brown. Meeting the slave-mother and her child on the steps of Cha...

Issued in the North during the Civil War, the melodramatic portrayal of an apocryphal incident from the life of John Brown must have had unmistakable propagandistic overtones. In actuality a violent antislavery... More

Uncle Tom's cabin for children - Rare book, public domain, Library of ...

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

Uncl[e] Tom's cabin - Drawing. Public domain image.

Created by "A.S. Seer's Print." Large pieces missing; part of title missing. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)

Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

Photograph shows horse and buggy and soldiers outside building with sign Price, Birch & Co., dealers in slaves. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, VA. War Views. No. 2296. Negative by Brady & Co., Washington.

The Sale - A picture of two men standing next to each other

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