Don Quixote releases the Galley Slaves (Six Illustrations for Don Quix...
William Hogarth (British, London 1697–1764 London) Public domain scan of English 17th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Cash! All persons that have slaves to dispose of, will do well by givi...
Slaves- Sale. 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 186, Folder 27.
Letter from John Quincy Adams Edgell, West Newbury, to Amos Augustus P...
John Quincy Adams Edgell and G. B. Penny write to the pastor of the Free Church of Boston regarding a meeting to be held in the Centre Church regarding the installation of J. A. Martyn as pastor of the Centre C... More
The fox hunt. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Again Van Buren's flirtation with radical interests is portrayed as his downfall. As in "The Modern Colossus" (no. 1848-56) antislavery activist Abby Folsom (here "Abby Fulsome") is prominently featured. Here s... More
Whig harmony - Political cartoon, public domain image
A severe split within the Whig ranks, between partisans of Henry Clay and those of Zachary Taylor, preceded the party's convention in June 1848. Here Horace Greeley, one of Clay's most influential northern supp... More
The Fugitive slave law. [Hartford, Ct.? : s.n., 185-?]
Text of the law.; Includes "Synopsis of the law," critical of the legislation, signed by S.M. Africanus, Hartford, Ct., and poem in three parts.; Fugitive slaves--United States.; Slavery--United States.; Afric... More
[Frederick Douglass, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right]
Date and photographer information from: Picturing Frederick Douglass / John Stauffer. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2015, p. 185.
What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
The opposition of Northern abolitionists, churchmen, and political figures to enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is criticized in this rare pro-Southern cartoon. In two panels artist Edward Williams ... More
Abu Nabut and Negro Slaves in Cairo
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Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Andover, [Massachusetts], to Willia...
Harriet Beecher Stowe writes to William Lloyd Garrison suggesting "a set of anti-slavery lectures [be held] in Boston this winter similar to that in New York and Worcester." Stowe offers to pay "the expenses of... More
Letter from William P. Powell, Liverpool, [England], to Samuel May, Ap...
Powell speaks strongly against the pro-slavery Americans he has seen on the ships in Liverpool Harbor. He tells May that "American liberty is a mockery, British liberty is an existing fact." Powell likens Frede... More
[African American woman holding a white child]
Rinhart, no. 119. Modern handwritten note in case: Slave nanny/white child image came from an estate sale somewhere in the flat lands delta area of Arkansas. Likely from one of the following Arkansas towns: Hel... More
Reynolds's political map of the United States, designed to exhibit the...
Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes statistics from the 1850 census and ill.
Come one! Come all!. 19th century, Library of Congress collection
Advertising sale of slaves by James L. Coleman, Augusta, Ga., 26 Dec. 1856.
A slave father sold away from his family
African-American slave leaving his family. Illus. in: The Child's Anti-Slavery Book..., New York, [1860], frontispiece. Ref. copy may be in SSF - NEGRO SLAVERY AUCTIONS AND TRADE 1860. This record contains unve... More
Slaves of the rebel Genl. Thomas F. Drayton, Hilton Head, S.C.
Photograph showing a group portrait of African American men and women on a plantation. Date from Gladstone collection checklist. Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.265) No. "42" inscribed o... More
Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia, Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Live oak and palmetto tree, Elliot's Hilton Head, S.C.
Photograph shows two trees and a few men near a cabin or slave quarters, Elliot Plantation. Title is inscribed in ink on the front of the mount. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: M22. Purchase; William A. G... More
Nat Turner & his confederates in conference
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I assure you my friend, that you can safely vote our ticket, for we ha...
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The man that blocks up the highway.
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The late Senator Sumner. Ceremonies in the Capitol -- colored people o...
Illustration shows the body of Senator Charles Sumner lying in state in the U.S. Capitol. Other illustrations on the same page show Mate Brady, a hero of the "Atlantic" disaster...; Bertie Winkler, the Virginia... More
Josiah Henson. - Public domain portrait engraving
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Tipo Tib's fresh captives being sent into bondage - witnessed by Stanl...
Captives in African village being sent into slavery. Reproduction of a wood engraving from Heroes of the Dark Continent: and How Stanley found Emin Pasha by James W. Buel, 1890, c1899, p. 489 (possibly from a reprint).
[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...
Maps show comparison of African American population in the United States with several European countries and Australia. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University s... More
[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...
Line graph shows percentage of African American men and women who are single, married, or widowed by age. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for th... More
Chinese women in child slavery case
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Photograph of Harriet Tubman - An old woman sitting in a chair with a ...
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Ex Slaves - Sylvester Brooks, Age 87
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Anderson and Minerva Edwards, Age 93 and 87
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Nap McQueen, Age 80 - Drawing. Public domain image.
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
UNIA Parade, organized in Harlem, 1920
Public domain photograph of parade, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Betty Farrow, Age 90
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Cato Carter, Age about 100
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Price and wife Miranda, Age about 80
Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Fred Brown, Age 84
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Ellen Polk, Age 83
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Gus Askew, Age 84, Alabama
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Clara Brim, Age over 100
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Tillie R. Powers, Age about 77
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Esther King Casey, Age 81
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Ex Slaves - Adeline Cunningham, Age 85
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Hannah Crasson, Age 84
Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Campbell Davis, Age 85
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Sam T. Stewart, Age 84
Public domain photograph - historical image of North Carolina, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Amos Clark, Age 96
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Tom McAlpin, Age over 90
Public domain photograph - historical image of Alabama, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Ellen Payne, Age 88
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Charley Hurt, Age 85
Picryl description: Public domain image of a garden, gardening, agriculture, plants, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Ex Slaves - William Branch, Age 87
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Albert Todd, Age 86
Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - A. M. Moore, Age 91
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Spence Johnson, Age over 87 - A black and white photo of a man in a su...
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Josie Brown, Age 78 - Born in slavery. Slave narratives. Federal write...
Born in slavery slave narratives from the federal writers project 1936 1938
Millie Evans, Age 87 - Born in slavery. Slave narratives. Federal writ...
Born in slavery slave narratives from the federal writers project 1936 1938
Ex Slaves - Andrew Goodman, Age 97
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ex Slaves - Lizzie Jones, Age 86
Public domain photograph - historical image of Texas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
One room of old Trepagnier plantation house as it is today. This house...
Public domain photograph of the 1930s-1940s World War Two, armed forces, military production, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglas. More than 6,00...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Inspection and sale of a negro - Public domain scan / engraving
An African man being inspected for sale into slavery while a white man talks with African slave traders. Reproduction of a wood engraving by Whitney, Jocelyn & Annin from: Captain Canot; or, Twenty years of an ... More
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Yellow Grass and Blue Wate...
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: With switchgrass gently swaying and blue water flowing, Stewart's Canal and the surrounding landscape provide a scenic stop to contempla... More
A group of people walking down a street. Koti slavery abolition.
Slavery. Free images of slavery. Use free photos of slavery without any copyright restrictions.
Escaped slave Gordon, also known as "Whipped Peter," showing his scarr...
Printed on verso: "From life, taken at Baton Rouge, La., April 2d, 1863." On verso: Facsimile of original medical report to Colonel L.B. Marsh from J.W. Mercer, assistant surgeon with the 47th Massachusetts Vo... More
G. W. Gayles, H. N. Jeter, Daniel Jones, J. T. White
Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More
Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: 1975 Addition, 1821-1924; Subject file; ...
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Wrapping paper relating to the memoir of Samuel Joseph May from Samuel...
This manuscript is a piece of paper that Samuel May wrapped around the papers relating to the memoir for his cousin, Samuel Joseph May, who "died at Syracuse, N.Y. July 1, 1871." Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Letter from Joseph Lupton, Scarborough, Yorkshire, [England], to Samue...
Lupton says that he has shipped two boxes of contributions from Leeds for the anti-slavery fair. He gives a brief account of the contents of the boxes and speaks particularly of a screen. Lupton also informs Ma... More
Letter from Mary Carpenter, Bristol, [England], to William Lloyd Garri...
Mary Carpenter informs William Lloyd Garrison of her pleasure at having learned from Harriet Lupton of Garrison's proposal to visit England. Carpenter states her hopes that Garrison will pay them an early visit... More
Letter from Mary Anne Rawson, Sheffield, [England], to William Lloyd G...
Mary A. Rawson writes to William Lloyd Garrison expressing her gratitude for Garrison's "great kindnes" in coming to visit her. Rawson discusses her "five large volumes of autographs and portraits" which includ... More
Letter from Thomas Hughes, Lincoln's Inn, 3 Old Square, London, to Wil...
Hughes writes Garrison to offer his congratuations & respects concerning Garrison's support of Abraham Lincoln's re-election, & denounces those within the American Abolition movement which have broken with Garr... More
Letter from Mary Anne Rawson, Sheffield, [England], to William Lloyd G...
Mary A. Rawson writes to William Lloyd Garrison expressing her gratitude for Garrison's "great kindnes" in coming to visit her. Rawson discusses her "five large volumes of autographs and portraits" which includ... More
Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society expense account of A. A. Phelps for...
An itemized expense account, with the receipt signed by A.A. Phelps on April 10 1838, and three additional receipts: (1) for payment made by "New England Anti-Slavery Society" to “Dutton & Wentworth, Dr.” for a... More
Letter from Mary Anne Rawson, Sheffield, [England], to William Lloyd G...
Mary A. Rawson writes to William Lloyd Garrison expressing her gratitude for Garrison's "great kindnes" in coming to visit her. Rawson discusses her "five large volumes of autographs and portraits" which includ... More
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, o...
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, offering "Salute to Abolitionists Working to End Modern Slavery." [Among officials delivering remarks were: Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Under... More
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, o...
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, offering "Salute to Abolitionists Working to End Modern Slavery." [Among officials delivering remarks were: Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Under... More
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, o...
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, offering "Salute to Abolitionists Working to End Modern Slavery." [Among officials delivering remarks were: Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Under... More
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, o...
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, offering "Salute to Abolitionists Working to End Modern Slavery." [Among officials delivering remarks were: Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Under... More
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, o...
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, offering "Salute to Abolitionists Working to End Modern Slavery." [Among officials delivering remarks were: Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Under... More
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, o...
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, offering "Salute to Abolitionists Working to End Modern Slavery." [Among officials delivering remarks were: Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Under... More
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, o...
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, offering "Salute to Abolitionists Working to End Modern Slavery." [Among officials delivering remarks were: Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Under... More
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, o...
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, offering "Salute to Abolitionists Working to End Modern Slavery." [Among officials delivering remarks were: Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Under... More
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, o...
[Assignment: 59-CF-DS-32667-06] Program, in Benjamin Franklin Room, offering "Salute to Abolitionists Working to End Modern Slavery." [Among officials delivering remarks were: Secretary Condoleezza Rice; Under... 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 67 slaves held at Ryan's mart on Chalmers Stre... 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
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
Bizarre Honeymoon 02 - A drawing of a woman sitting on a chair
Illustrations for Bizarre Honeymoon. The editorial notes for the 30th Street Graphics ebook describe the work as follows: "Combining the work of at least three people, this unusual publication mixes esoteric, 2... More
The Lash., ca. 1863 (5574585348)
Shows an African American man's new master whipping him. Forms part of a collection of twelve titled carte-de-visite size cards depicting the evolution of the life of an African American man from a slave to a ... More
HOS D419 Capitol - Raleigh
Capitol - Raleigh
Worthington Farm White Oaks, Worthington Farm, Northwest base of Brook...
See also HABS MD-1052 for related documentation. Significance: The Worthington Farm White Oaks (Quercus alba) are significant due to their likely association with the nineteenth-century African American communi... More
Outing (1885) (14578302719) - Public domain book illustration
Identifier: outing48newy (find matches) Title: Outing Year: 1885 (1880s) Authors: Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.) Contributing Library: Tisch Library Digitizing Spo... More
The Civil War - the national view (1906) (14739688936)
Identifier: civilwarnational00thor (find matches) Title: The Civil War : the national view Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Thorpe, Francis Newton, 1857-1926 Subjects: Publisher: Philadelphia : George Barrie & ... More
The true Abraham Lincoln (1904) (14577524308)
Identifier: trueabrahamlinc19044curt (find matches) Title: The true Abraham Lincoln Year: 1904 (1900s) Authors: Curtis, William Eleroy, 1850-1911 Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Lincoln, Abraham, 1809... More
'Cargo of Newly released Slaves on board H.M.S. London' RMG E9085 (cro...
'Cargo of Newly released Slaves on board H.M.S. London' Albumen print. Part of the Michael Graham-Stewart slavery collection Mounted with ZBA2616 Cargo of newly released slaves on board HMS London
Slaves Zanzibar RMG E9090
Slaves Zanzibar A silver gelatin print originally from an album of photographs by Barnett. The image depicts female slaves posed outside the doorway to a building. Slaves - Zanzibar
Melrose Plantation, Yucca House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoc...
See HABS No. LA-2-69-A for photographs of the same. 1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Fourth Place Significance: Yucca Plantation, now known as Melrose, was established in the last quarter of the 18th century by ... More
Melrose Plantation, Yucca House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoc...
See HABS No. LA-2-69-A for photographs of the same. 1995 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Fourth Place Significance: Yucca Plantation, now known as Melrose, was established in the last quarter of the 18th century by ... More
Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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