slavery

[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.

Promissory notes from Harriet Beecher Stowe

This series of five notes from Mrs. Stowe read, "I promise to pay" the Anti-Slavery Fair [a sum of money]. There is also a computation of the amounts in the hand of Samuel May that is titled, "Due Bills, Bazaar... More

Slavery and the Boston riot. The following letter was written, shortly...

Title. 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 56, Folder 15.

The Anti-slavery record, Vol. II, no. IX, [Front cover]

Abolition frowned down. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A satire on enforcement of the "gag-rule" in the House of Representatives, prohibiting discussion of the question of slavery. Growing antislavery sentiment in the North coincided with increased resentment by so... More

Letter from Giles Badger Stebbins, Rochester, N[ew] Y[ork], to William...

Giles B. Stebbins writes to William Lloyd Garrison sending him an obituary (not included) "of our much loved friend Susan R. Doty." Stebbins recalls that Garrison visited "her pleasant home a year since with Ge... 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]

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," http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/c... 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

Incomplete letter from C. G. Olds, Hampton, N.H., to Lydia Maria Child...

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Letter from Thodore Dwight Weld and Angelina Emily Grimke, to William ...

Theodore and Angelina Grimke Weld write William Lloyd Garrison expressing their wish that Garrison attend and speak at the funeral of Sarah Grimke, who passed away December 23, 1873. They include a typeset circ... More

The Union as it was The lost cause, worse than slavery / / Th. Nast.

Man "White League" shaking hands with Ku Klux Klan member over shield illustrated with African American couple with dead(?) baby. In background, man hanging from tree. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 18, no. 930... More

Wm. Wells Brown, M.D. The Colored Historian

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"Why you no cuttee off your queue?" / Will Crawford.

Illustration shows an Asian, possibly Chinese, soldier offering scissors labeled "Enlightenment" to Uncle Sam so that he can cut off his long braid labeled "Partisan Politics"; the soldier's own severed braid l... More

William Colbert, Age 93

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Ellen Thomas, Age 89

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Population - 1647; Gov. Stuyvesant to the States General; An account o...

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Proceedings of the United States Senate, on the Fugitive slave bill,--...

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

A scriptural view of the moral relations of African slavery

Cover title. "Revised and amended in 1859." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16632. Source: Source unknown.

Clear views in 1782, concerning the effects of slavery

Cover title. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site. LC copy formerly part of YA Collection: YA 16895. Exchange, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston

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Letter from Joseph Lupton, Leeds, [England], to Samuel May, October 31...

Lupton announces a shipment of articles for the Anti-Slavery Fair. He says that the Leeds Quakers support the Philadelphia Bazaar. Lupton tells May that he thinks William Lloyd Garrison ought to be more careful... More

Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 an...

This broadside is one of 15 found in the Hutson Lee papers advertising sales of slaves in Charleston in 1859 and 1860. This broadside advertises a slave auction of 47 slaves from Christ Church Parish held at Ry... More

France freedom Britain slavery by James Aitken

France freedom Britain slavery, by James Aitken (floruit 1795), published 1789. See source website for additional information. This set of images was gathered by User:Dcoetzee from the National Portrait Galler... More

James Y. Smith to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, February 03, 1865 (Telegra...

Mrs. Mary Crane - 82 yrs. old ex-slave, Mitchell, Ind.

130001. Written on back of photo: Return to E.C. Turner, 714 Lincoln Ave., Bedford, Ind. Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Proj... More

Am I not a man and a brother? - Public domain illuminated manuscript

The large, bold woodcut image of a supplicant male slave in chains appears on the 1837 broadside publication of John Greenleaf Whittier's antislavery poem, "Our Countrymen in Chains." The design was originally... More

Frederick Douglass / engd. by A.H. Ritchie.

Print shows Frederick Douglass, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right; includes facsimile signature. Published in: Men of our times / Harriet Beecher Stowe. Hartfort, Conn. : Hartford Publishing C... More

Uncle Van Moore, ex-slave - Public domain portrait drawing

420013. District no. 27. Picture no. 380. 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

Crispus Attucks - Public domain portrait painting

Memorial portrait, bust, facing left. "The brave soldier of the Revolutionary War, 1770." Half-tone reproduction of painting. Copyright by W.H. Curd, Chicago, Ill. This record contains unverified, old data from... More

Selling females by the pound. - Public domain dedication image

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Slave traders marching their captives to the coast, butchering disable...

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A slave plantation. - Public domain dedication image

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Public whipping - their fate equal sodom's

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John Brown - Public domain portrait print

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A plantation "corn-shucking"-social meetings of slaves.

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Began singing the 'dies iræ.'" - Public domain dedication image

Map showing the density of slave population in North Carolina in 1860.

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The voyage of the Sable Venus, from Angola to the West Indies

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Old slave quarters on one of the plantations which is now part of La D...

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The friends of humanity laying the axe to the upas tree of slavery, wh...

“Marcus Garvey”

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Plan of a settlement to be made near Sierra Leona, on the Grain Coast ...

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Educational and professional. Shivery family papers

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Picking cotton near Montgomery, Alabama

Stereograph shows African Americans, possibly slaves, working in a cotton field. Attributed to Lakin based on image published in Stereo World, March/April 2012, p. 7 Gift; G.W. Richmond; Nov. 1927 (DLC/PP-1927:47158)

First Church of Christ (Congregational), Main Street, between School &...

Site of "Amistad Affair." Significance: Although moderately altered since its construction in 1771, the First Church of Christ is Connecticut's finest surviving example of a colonial meetinghouse and was the ch... More

The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 177...

A sensationalized portrayal of the skirmish, later to become known as the "Boston Massacre," between British soldiers and citizens of Boston on March 5, 1770. On the right a group of seven uniformed soldiers, o... More

Andrew Jackson to Andrew I. Crawford, Wednesday, May 01, 1833 (Nullif...

Horrid massacre in Virginia - Public domain book illustration

Composite of scenes of Nat Turner's rebellion. Illus. in: Authentic and impartial narrative of the tragical scene which was witnessed in Southampton County. [New York], 1831. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-3.

Wilke's Spirit of the Times, [newspaper]. April 22st, 1865.

Blow for blow - Drawing. Public domain image.

Card showing Afro-American slave with club standing over body of white man holding whip. No. 6, no. 62. Copyright by William A. Stephens. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863.

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

List of estate items with slaves at bottom of second page. Top reads "...

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An address to the public, from the Pennsylvania Society for promoting ...

All men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain in...

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Esclaves nègres, de différentes nations / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. d...

Illustration showing faces of black women slaves from various tribes reflecting different styles of dress and adornment. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, depuis 1816 jusqu'en 1831 ... / pa... More

Letter from Samuel Joseph May, Boston, to Amos Augustus Phelps, Dec. 1...

In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Samuel J. May discusses a few anti-slavery publications, including Phelps’s book, the second edition of which Mr. Knapp is willing to publish. He then discusses a variety of to... More

Portraits of Hannibal and Cyprian, with vignettes illustrating African...

An abolitionist print, asserting the nobility of the African peoples and deploring their inhumane treatment under the slave trade. There are two vignettes: "Treatment of the Africans" (top) showing African nati... More

[The battle of Bunker's Hill, June 17th 1775] / [painted by J. Trumbul...

Print shows British and American soldiers in hand-to-hand combat during the Battle of Bunker Hill; among the soldiers depicted are Major General Joseph Warren, Captain Thomas Gardner, Major Andrew McClary, Colo... More

Common mode of whipping with the paddle

Man whipping slave as two other men and a child watch. Illus. in: Trial and imprisonment of Jonathan Walker, at Pensacola, Florida, for aiding slaves to escape from bondage. Boston : Pub. at the Anti-slavery of... More

Important news by telegraph. - Public domain broadside, Library of Con...

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Five sermons by Theodore Parker, 1858 Jan[uary] 10 -Fe[bruary] 7

Theodore Parker writes a sermon on January 10, 1858 titled, "Evidences of God in the World of Matter." Theodore Parker writes a sermon on January 17, 1858 titled, "Evidences of God in the World of Man." Theodor... More

[Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, standing with hands on back of ...

Title devised by library staff. Date of photograph based on years photographer Harvey B. Lindsley was active and Tubman's clothing. (Source: researcher A. Cohn, 2016) Original photo not found in LOT since at le... More

[Calendar for 1863]

An advertising calendar for a lithographic printer, with various patriotic motifs and a subtle commentary on the Emancipation Proclamation. The calendar, for 1863, is set within an elaborate architectural fram... More

Mansion of James Hopkinson, Edisto Island, S.C.

Photograph shows slaves standing in fenced yard and a side view of the Hopkinson house. Title inscribed in ink on front of mount. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22; plantation workers in front of mansio... More

The emancipation of the negroes, January, 1863 - The past and the futu...

Below rays of "Emancipation," a scene of African Americans enjoying a comfortable home life is flanked by scenes of the past, including the selling and abuse of slaves, and scenes of the future, including educa... More

Scene in the House on the passage of the proposition to amend the Cons...

Letter from John Keep, Oberlin, Ohio, to William Lloyd Garrison, June ...

John Keep informs William Lloyd Garrison that he was "gratified" by the notice that Garrison was compiling a history of the abolitionist movement in America, exclaiming that it will be "a precious boon" to the ... More

James D. Johnson, Age 77

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Emma Watson, Age about 85

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Millie Evans, Age 87

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Bill and Ellen Thomas, Ages 88 and 81

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Hannah Crasson, Age 84

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Gus Brown

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Andrew Moody and wife Tildy, Age 82

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

Richard Toler, Age about 100 - Public domain historical image

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Brodess Farm, National Parks gallery

The farm of Edward Brodess, Harriet Tubman's enslaver, remains in private hands in Dorchester County. Although Harriet spent some of her younger years here, Brodess frequently hired her out to nearby farms to work.

A slave auction at the south / from an original sketch by Theodore R. ...

African American men, women, and children being auctioned off in front of crowd of men. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 237, 1861 July 13, p. 442. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-1.

What became of the slaves on a Georgia plantation? : great auction sal...

First-hand account of a slave sale, with vivid descriptions of buyers and slaves and of the workings of the sale. First published under title: Great auction sale of slaves, at Savannah, Georgia, March 2d and 3d... More

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Sailor Dischar...

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Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Speeches and Writings File, 1839-1903; c...

William Henry Harrison Papers: Series 4, Printed Matter, 1815-1922; Su...

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Letter from Theodore Parker, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to Abby Hoppe...

Theodore Parker writes to Abby Hopper Gibbons in regards to the death of her son, William. He writes, "But as sailors who suffer shipwreck only reach another harbor, not the one marked in their chart, but the i... More

Letter from Sydney Howard Gay, Office of the Tribune, New York, to Wil...

Black Society of the Tauza Nation, Argentina

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Handbill with engraving by Jack Smith- Back To the Slave Quarters! Vot...

Vertical wood engraving shows a caricature of Lincoln standing over a slave master who is cracking the whip of Negro Segregation toward a black woman and her three children. Lincoln says, "No nation can stand ... More

Missouri Constitutional Convention of 1865 Album page with John R. Swe...

Page twenty-one of the album with half-length portraits of John R. Swearinger (left) and John H. Davis (Davice) (right). "Swearinger Jackson." and "Davis. Nodaway" (written on album page). Swearinger was a dele... More

WhippedGordonHarpers - Public domain portrait engraving

Gordon, slave who escaped to Union lines during the American Civil War, displaying scars from whippings. "Gordon under medical inspection". Shows the scars resulting from severe lashings; this slave was able t... More

Green Hill Plantation, Slave Auction Block, State Route 728, Long Isla...

Significance: "Green Hill" plantation was built by Samuel Pannill who first bought 600 acres from William and Moses Fuqua in 1797, and added to and developed the plantation 'til his death in 1864. According to ... More

Manuscript of an officer of the highest class moving to Portugal

Manuscript of an officer of the highest class moving to Portugal

Phillis Wheatley - Public domain portrait engraving

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Paul Lawrence Dunbar. - Public domain dedication image

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Freed slave escorting her children to school.

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Songsters of note.

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Slavery in South Carolina and the ex-slaves

Frederick Douglass - Public domain portrait engraving

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Uncle John. He was another of the slaves that Mr. Ogle Tayloe took fro...

aunt phebe uncle tom and others character studies among the old slaves of the south fifty years after

Library. - Public domain dedication image

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