Thirty years a slave. From bondage to freedom. The institution of slav...
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"Confederate camp" during the late American war
Print shows encampment of Confederate soldiers, including three slaves(?). B9019 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright 1871 by Louis Zimmer. After a painting by C. W. Chapman, Ordance Sergeant, 59th Virginia Regime... More
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.
![[Burial of Latane] / [...] by W.D. Washington ; engraved by A.G. Campbell.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMTQvYnVyaWFsLW9mLWxhdGFuZS1ieS13ZC13YXNoaW5ndG9uLWVuZ3JhdmVkLWJ5LWFnLWNhbXBiZWxsLTMzMzA0ZS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/30/webp "[Burial of Latane] / [...] by W.D. Washington ; engraved by A.G. Campbell.")
[Burial of Latane] / [...] by W.D. Washington ; engraved by A.G. Campb...
Engraving after a painting by William Dickinson Washington shows the funeral of William D. Latané, a cavalry captain who was the only Confederate killed during J.E.B. Stuart's raid around the Union army near Ri... More
November 10, 1785, Pittsylvania, Against emancipation of slaves.
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A group of "contrabands". American Civil War 1861-1865.
Stereograph showing a group of seven African American men, former slaves, dressed in old Union uniforms standing in front of a wagon and shack. No. 2594. Part of series: The War for the Union. Photographic War ... More
Freedom to the slaves - Public domain portrait drawing
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2311
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.
Abolition de l'esclavage dans les colonies anglaises /
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Receipt for African American slave
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![[Illustration showing two Brazilian slaves in Bahia carrying cloth covered sedan chair on shoulders with woman inside, with surrounding text]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4MjQvMDEvMDEvaWxsdXN0cmF0aW9uLXNob3dpbmctdHdvLWJyYXppbGlhbi1zbGF2ZXMtaW4tYmFoaWEtY2FycnlpbmctY2xvdGgtY292ZXJlZC1zZWRhbi02NDAuanBn/40/63/webp "[Illustration showing two Brazilian slaves in Bahia carrying cloth covered sedan chair on shoulders with woman inside, with surrounding text]")
[Illustration showing two Brazilian slaves in Bahia carrying cloth cov...
Illus. in: Journal of a voyage to Brazil, and residence there, during part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823 / Maria Graham. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green and J. Murray, 1824, p. 133. Possib... More
Colored individuals along the road side
Drawing shows an African American slave woman leaning against a split rail fence along with three children. She says, "Oh I so glad you come, 'massa says he wish you were in da bottom of the sea--but you ain't ... More
Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia / negative by William R. Pywell ; posi...
Photograph showing exterior view of Price, Birch & Co., dealers in slaves. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, Virginia. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington... More
Mansion of the rebel Genl. Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, S.C.
Photograph showing African American slave women and Union soldiers outside Drayton's house. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.272). Gladstone's note: M22.
![[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the descendants of former African slaves now in residence in the United States of America] Comparative rate of increase of the white and Negro elements of the population of the United States / / Done by Atlanta University.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMjgvYS1zZXJpZXMtb2Ytc3RhdGlzdGljYWwtY2hhcnRzLWlsbHVzdHJhdGluZy10aGUtY29uZGl0aW9uLW9mLXRoZS1kZXNjZW5kYW50cy00OTU2NzEtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/45/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] Comparative rate of increase of the white and Negro elements of the population of the United States / / Done by Atlanta University.")
[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...
Line graph shows comparison of African American to white populations between 1790 and 1890. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibi... More
Slave quarters at Historic Stagville, a North Carolina historic site o...
Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site comprises the remnants of one of the largest plantations of the pre-Civil War South. The plantations belonged to the Bennehan... More
The life of Omar ben Saeed, called Morro, a Fullah Slave in Fayettevil...
Manuscript. Title page in English; text in Arabic. Title from page 4 of cover. Autograph. Purchased from Sotheby's London, 30 June 2017. Written in North Carolina, United States of America. Paper; white wove pa... More
Diddie, Dumps, and Tot, or, Plantation child-life
Twelve full-page illustrations included in pagination. Some illustrations signed: WLS (William Ludwell Sheppard). "Interesting and popular books depicting southern life and character"--2 p. at end. Haviland, V... More
Negro Reg't (i.e. Regiment) at Beaufort, S.C.
Photograph shows the 29th Regiment Connecticut Volunteers, U.S. Colored Troops in formation near Beaufort, South Carolina. Purchase; Robin Stanford; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:022). Photographer and date from close va... More
![[Slave quarters on a plantation, possibly in Beaufort, South Carolina]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDYvc2xhdmUtcXVhcnRlcnMtb24tYS1wbGFudGF0aW9uLXBvc3NpYmx5LWluLWJlYXVmb3J0LXNvdXRoLWNhcm9saW5hLTc4YjdhNi0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/25/webp "[Slave quarters on a plantation, possibly in Beaufort, South Carolina]")
[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
I am a Patriot d- me Sir and I will be a Patriot ..., British Cartoon ...
Cartoon shows Charles James Fox, an English patriot, standing among a group that includes a small child, an old woman, a slave, and a shoeshiner. This cartoon is an apparent attack on the British Opposition to ... More
The slaves of the Jews / J.A. Wales.
Illustration shows a line of women, seeking employment, standing before a lecherous man while three men behind a table observe the selection process; also three vignettes depicting the demeaning conditions for ... More
![White slaves. It is of the greatest importance to the workingmen of the United States to understand the true sentiments and objects of the leading traitors of the South ... [Signed] A democratic workingman. New York, Sept. 28th 1863.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjMvMDEvMDEvd2hpdGUtc2xhdmVzLWl0LWlzLW9mLXRoZS1ncmVhdGVzdC1pbXBvcnRhbmNlLXRvLXRoZS13b3JraW5nbWVuLW9mLXRoZS11bml0ZWQtMS0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/63/webp "White slaves. It is of the greatest importance to the workingmen of the United States to understand the true sentiments and objects of the leading traitors of the South ... [Signed] A democratic workingman. New York, Sept. 28th 1863.")
White slaves. It is of the greatest importance to the workingmen of th...
Civil war- Draft riots.; On verso, Piece 1: 11032.02. 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; Portf... More
Seabrook's flower garden - A black and white photo of a castle surroun...
Photograph shows an aerial view of Union soldiers and slaves in the Seabrook plantation garden. Title inscribed in ink on front of the mount. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; William A. Glad... More
The slave market, Atlanta, Ga. - A black and white photo of a town str...
Stereograph showing a man with a rifle sitting outside a commercial building used as a slave market, bearing a sign "Auction & Negro Sales" on Whitehall Street. No. 3608, in series: War Views. Imprinted on card... More
The secession bubble. "It must burst" / J.H. Bufford's Lith., Boston.
A genre scene with a pointed political reference. A black girl, probably the child of slaves, plays with a soap pipe in a garden. Beyond the garden fence, in a landscape with palmettos, a fortress flying a Conf... More
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. 443. Official project no. 565-3-3. Work project no. 6950(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African... More
Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia - A black and white photo of a jail ce...
Photograph shows interior view of a slave pen, showing the doors of cells where the slaves were held before being sold. Building address: 1315 Duke Street, Alexandria, VA. No. 2297. Mounted with five other pho... More
Rebecca, Augusta, and Rosa, emancipated slaves from New Orleans / phot...
Photograph shows full-length portraits of Rebecca Huger, Augusta Broujey, and Rosina Downs, facing front. Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV86; Slave Children. "Ent'd according to act of Congress, in ... More
La destruction de la statue royale a Nouvelle Yorck Die zerstorung der...
Print shows a misguided attempt by the artist to depict the destruction of an equestrian statue of King George III in New York City on July 9, 1776; this view shows what appear to be mostly slaves attempting to... More
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 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
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![[Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjgvaXJvbi1tYXNrLWNvbGxhci1sZWctc2hhY2tsZXMtYW5kLXNwdXJzLXVzZWQtdG8tcmVzdHJpY3Qtc2xhdmVzLTllZGNiOC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/49/webp "[Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves]")
[Iron mask, collar, leg shackles and spurs used to restrict slaves]
Illus. in: The penitential tyrant / Thomas Branagan. New-York: Printed by Samuel Wood, no. 362, Pearl-street, 1807. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-3.
Louis Haghe - Abyssinian slaves resting at Korti Nubia / David Roberts...
Illus. in: Egypt & Nubia / from drawings made on the spot by David Roberts ... ; lithographed by Louis Haghe. London : F.G. Moon, 1846-1849, v. 1, pt. 27.
Winter holydays in the Southern States. Plantation frolic on Christmas...
Illustration shows Christmas festivities on a southern plantation where enslaved African Americans dance, feast, and play music as their white owners observe. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v... More
Slave quarters of Jefferson Davis plantation
Photograph shows the slave quarters on Brierfield, the Jefferson Davis plantation. Title from inscription on item. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: CDV60. "Sent home by Elizabeth Findley Missionary to the ... More
![[Captain George Riggs Gaither of K Company, 1st Virginia Cavalry]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMTUvY2FwdGFpbi1nZW9yZ2UtcmlnZ3MtZ2FpdGhlci1vZi1rLWNvbXBhbnktMXN0LXZpcmdpbmlhLWNhdmFscnktYWI0MGNkLTEwMjQuanBn/40/48/webp "[Captain George Riggs Gaither of K Company, 1st Virginia Cavalry]")
[Captain George Riggs Gaither of K Company, 1st Virginia Cavalry]
Photo shows identified soldier with arm resting on book at the base of a column; a table next to him holds his cap and a dish. More information is in "Glimpses of Soldiers' Lives," SoldierbiosGaither.html Exhib... More
Negro slaves 1862 Edisto Island, S.C. (plantation of James Hopkinson)
Photo shows a group of African American slaves posed around a horse-drawn cart, with a building in the background, at the Cassina Point plantation of James Hopkinson on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Inscribed... More
The Chicago platform / Th. Nast., Confederate States of America.
A deceptive broadside, ostensibly a pro-McClellan campaign piece but actually a piercing attack on the Democratic platform. In the center is a portrait of Democratic presidential candidate George B. McClellan... More
The Greek slave / Th. Nast. wood engraving, Library of Congress
Cartoon showing Irish-American man handcuffed to stump, "Tammany rum", with slave driver standing behind him, surrounded by other illustrations of Irish-American men working and "slave drivers." Illus. in: Harp... More
Reading the story Aenone / Tomlinson, Detroit.
Photograph shows four African-American ladies dressed in classical roman attire reading the story of Aenone. Photograph references a book by Leonard Kip entitled "Ænone: a tale of slave life in Rome," publishe... More
A slave's love /
Costume drama set in Athens. Polymos lies dejectedly on a couch. He cannot be distracted by the wealth and pleasures around him and puts his hands to his temples as if he was ill. His wife, Chrysis, orders the ... More
De day ob liberty's comin - American Civil War sheet music
Music associated with the Union side
Uncle Tom's cabin, American vaudeville and popular entertainment 1870 ...
I3347 U.S. Copyright Office Created by "H.A. Thomas Lith. Studio, 865 Broadway, N.Y.; copyrighted 1878 by H.A. Thomas." Signed: Kendrick. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Rebecca, Charley & Rosa, slave children from New Orleans / Chas. Paxso...
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of freed slaves, Rebecca Huger, Charley Taylor, and Rosina Downs, each child is facing front.
Wake Nicodemus! - American Civil War sheet music
Music associated with the Union side