The American Declaration of Independence illustrated / Fabronious ; de...
An idealistic call for emancipation of the slaves. Borne aloft by an eagle holding two American flags is an aerial carriage similar to the basket of a hot-air balloon with two occupants: a black man who is a fr... More
Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.
Photograph shows soldiers inside prison area where slaves were held. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, Virginia. War Views. No. 2298. Negative by Brady & Co., Washington.
Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia - A black and white photo of an old bu...
Photograph shows street view of buildings along 1300 block of Duke Street, including Price, Birch & Co., which were used to hold slaves awaiting auction. Slave pen address: 1315 Duke Street. No. 4191. Illus. i... 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
The Grove - Public domain portrait print
Photograph shows a group portrait of African American men, women and children, Freedmen at this time, gathered under a large tree in Beaufort, South Carolina. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). ... More
Stampede of slaves from Hampton to Fortress Monroe
Illustration shows African Americans, carrying their possessions, running along a river bank at night, toward a bridge that leads to Fort Monroe; there are some Union soldiers among them.
Uncle Joe's hail Columbia! - American Civil War sheet music
Music associated with the Union side
Washington family. George Washington, his Lady, & her two grandchildre...
Print showing George and Martha Washington sitting at a table with Martha's grandson on the left, next to a globe, and her granddaughter on the right, looking at a map on the table; a African American servant o... More
Triumph, Confederate States of America., Confederate States of America
A large, elaborate allegory predicting the triumph of the Union over the dark forces of the Confederacy and "King Cotton." A published key accompanying the print describes the secession of the South in heavily ... More
Triumph, Confederate States of America., engraving, Library of Congres...
A large, elaborate allegory predicting the triumph of the Union over the dark forces of the Confederacy and "King Cotton." A published key accompanying the print describes the secession of the South in heavily ... More
Oh carry me back to ole Virginny / Lith. & printed in colors by Robert...
Tobacco package label showing African American banjo player, woman, and three children in cabin. Copyright by G.W. Hillman & Co. Published in: Eyes of the nation : a visual history of the United States / Vincen... More
November 10, 1785, Pittsylvania, Against emancipation of slaves.
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Coming into the lines. A party of slaves...have started for the Union ...
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Tristan and Isolda /
Accompanied by his slave Rosen, Tristan journeys to Ireland to bring Isolda back to be the bride of his uncle, King Mark of Cornwall. Rosen, however, is jealous of her master's attentions to Isolda and attempts... More
Trial and imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for ...
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A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desce...
Map shows African American population distribution and circle graph shows professions of Atlanta University graduates. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibit of the American Sectio... More
A part of a speech pronounced by Francis S. Key, Esq. on the trial of ...
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Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /
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De darkie's rally - American Civil War sheet music
no cover Music associated with the Union side
W'rede straffe van een Planter aan zyn knegt
Planter whipping slave tied to tree. Illus. in: Exquemelin, Histoire der Boecaniers...(1700), facing p. 29. Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - Slavery 1700. This record contains unverified, old data from capti... More
Picking cotton on a Georgia plantation
Negro slaves. Illus. in: Ballou's Pictorial, v. 14, 1858, p. 49. Ref. copy may be in P&P - A Pictorial History of Blackamericans - E185.H83 1973, p. 16. This record contains unverified data from caption card. C... More
![[Sergeant A.M. Chandler of the 44th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Co. F., and Silas Chandler, family slave, with Bowie knives, revolvers, pepper-box, shotgun, and canteen]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjEvMDEvMDEvc2VyZ2VhbnQtYW0tY2hhbmRsZXItb2YtdGhlLTQ0dGgtbWlzc2lzc2lwcGktaW5mYW50cnktcmVnaW1lbnQtY28tZi1hbmQtc2lsYXMtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/33/webp "[Sergeant A.M. Chandler of the 44th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Co. F., and Silas Chandler, family slave, with Bowie knives, revolvers, pepper-box, shotgun, and canteen]")
[Sergeant A.M. Chandler of the 44th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, Co....
Photograph shows identified Confederate soldier, A.M. Chandler, and identified slave, Silas Chandler, who accompanied two Chandler brothers during their military service in the Civil War. For more information, ... More
Alexandria, Virginia. Slave pen. (Price, Birch & Co. dealers in slaves...
Address: 1315 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia. Stereo filed in LOT 4161. Caption from negative sleeve: Slave Pen, Alexandria, Va. File print in LOT 4161-H. Credit line: Civil war photographs, 1861-1865, Libra... More
Alexandria, Virginia. Slave pen. (Price, Birch & Company dealers in sl...
Address: 1315 Duke Street, Alexandria, Virginia. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, Virginia, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The Christmas week - Drawing. Public domain image.
Card showing African Americans at Christmas party. No. 2, no. 58. Copyright by William A. Stephens. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863.
Behind the scenes during American Civil War
Another venomous attack on the Lincoln administration by the artist of "The Commander-in-Chief Conciliating the Soldier's Votes, no. 1864-31," and "The Sportsman Upset by the Recoil of His Own Gun," (no. 1864-3... More
Edward S. Curtis - The chief's daughter
Kwakiutl woman, full-length portrait, seated on a blanket-covered board supported by two wooden carved images representing her slaves, facing front, wearing a hat with metal(?) ornaments, very large earrings an... More
The deadly parallel - Public domain print
2 caricatures: 1. The slave who had a good master, showing old African woman saying she doesn't want emancipation; 2. The woman who has everythign, saying she doesn't want to vote. 2 color halftone reproduction... More
SLAVES REUNION. ANNIE PARRAM, AGE, 104; ANNA ANGALES, AGE 105; ELIZABE...
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SLAVES REUNION. LEWIS MARTIN, AGE 100; MARTHA ELIZABETH BANKS, AGE 104...
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Old City Cemetery, where slaves and slaveholders, Union and Confederat...
Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Tallahassee was the only southern capital never capture... More
Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a redeemed slave child, 5 years of...
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of the young girl facing slightly right. Caption continues: "Redeemed in Virginia, by Catharine S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beec... More
Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.
Stereograph showing Union soldiers standing outside a building designated Price, Birch & Co., Dealers in Slaves. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, Virginia. No. 2296. Part of series: The War for the Union. Ph... More
Poster - Uncle Tom's cabin - Public domain lithograph
R12448 U.S. Copyright Office Caption: Uncle Tom. Created by "A.S. Seer's Union Square Print., N.Y.; copyrighted by A. S. Seer, May 1886." Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Negroes, descendants of former slaves of the Pettway Plantation. They ...
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Alliance of British cotton spinners and slave-holding cotton lords to ...
Title. Page Order: Leaflet 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 84, Folder 8.
Redeemed in Virginia by Catharine S. Lawrence. Baptized in Brooklyn, a...
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of Catharine Lawrence with former slave child, Fannie Lawrence. They are sitting, holding hands, facing front. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, ... More
Contrabands on Mr. Foller's farm, Cumberland, May 14, 1862.
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: Photographic ... More
Plantation no. 3 Slave quarters. - stereocsopic card
Photograph shows slaves, many seated, in front of cabins. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Date of photo based on newspaper account of photographers working outside of the studio in and aroun... More
Front of "slave pen," Alexandria, Virginia (Andrew J. Russel)
Photograph showing a Union army guard and other men in front of a building designated Price, Birch & Co., dealers in slaves, at 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, VA. Before that, the premises were owned by the slave-... More
Front of "slave pen," Alexandria, Virginia (Andrew J. Russel)
Photograph showing a Union army guard and other men in front of a building designated Price, Birch & Co., dealers in slaves, at 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, VA. Before that, the premises were owned by the slave-... More
![Passmore Williamson, in Moyamensing Prison for alledged contempt of court / on stone by E[mil] Luders ; lith. of A[ugust] Kollner, Philadelphia.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjMvcGFzc21vcmUtd2lsbGlhbXNvbi1pbi1tb3lhbWVuc2luZy1wcmlzb24tZm9yLWFsbGVkZ2VkLWNvbnRlbXB0LW9mLWNvdXJ0LW9uLTk2MDJmYS02NDAuanBn/40/55/webp "Passmore Williamson, in Moyamensing Prison for alledged contempt of court / on stone by E[mil] Luders ; lith. of A[ugust] Kollner, Philadelphia.")
Passmore Williamson, in Moyamensing Prison for alledged contempt of co...
An unusual informal portrait of the secretary of the Pennsylvania Abolition Society, seated in a prison cell. Williamson was sentenced on July 22, 1855, to imprisonment for his "false return" (i.e., evasive tes... More
Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence, a redeemed slave child, 5 years of...
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of the young girl sitting, holding a hoop toy. Gladstone's ownership logo appears on the back. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1863, by C. S. Lawrenc... More
Report of the Holden slave case, tried at the January term of the Cour...
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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.
Ole Mose, or Freedom is a comin'
Music associated with the Union side
Learning is wealth. Wilson, Charley, Rebecca, and Rosa. Slaves from Ne...
Photograph shows Wilson Chinn, Charles Taylor, Rebecca Huger, and Rosina Downs, sitting, reading books. "Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberry, in the Clerk's Office of the ... More
Accounts for maintenance of Milley, James, and Lucy, emancipated Afric...
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The Africans of the slave bark "Wildfire"--The slave deck of the bark ...
African men crowded onto a lower deck; African women crowded on an upper deck. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1860 June 2, p. 344. Wood engraving after daguerreotype. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-1.
Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave children from New Orleans / Chas. Paxson...
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of freed slaves Rosina Downs, Charles Taylor, and Rebecca Huger, each wrapped in a portion of the U.S. flag. "Our protection" caption below image. "Entered, according to... More
Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /
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