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Melrose Plantation, Yucca House, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA

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

Sarah Ford, ex-slave, Houston - Public domain portrait print

Sarah Ford, ex-slave, Houston - Public domain portrait print

420031. District no. 27. Picture no. 381. 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

Nathaniel Russell House, 51 Meeting Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Nathaniel Russell House, 51 Meeting Street, Charleston, Charleston Cou...

For additional documentation, see also HALS SC-12 (Nathaniel Russell House) 2018 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Entry Significance: The Nathaniel Russell house is a National Historic Landmark. It is an exceptional... More

Nathaniel Russell House, 51 Meeting Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Nathaniel Russell House, 51 Meeting Street, Charleston, Charleston Cou...

For additional documentation, see also HALS SC-12 (Nathaniel Russell House) 2018 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Entry Significance: The Nathaniel Russell house is a National Historic Landmark. It is an exceptional... More

Nathaniel Russell House, 51 Meeting Street, Charleston, Charleston County, SC

Nathaniel Russell House, 51 Meeting Street, Charleston, Charleston Cou...

For additional documentation, see also HALS SC-12 (Nathaniel Russell House) 2018 Leicester B. Holland Prize, Entry Significance: The Nathaniel Russell house is a National Historic Landmark. It is an exceptional... More

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1862, Mar. 29-Apr. 29

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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The American Declaration of Independence illustrated / Fabronious ; designed by R. Thayer ; L. Prang & Co. Lith., Boston.

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

Mose Hursey, ex-slave, Dallas - Public domain portrait print

Mose Hursey, ex-slave, Dallas - Public domain portrait print

420226. District no. 27. Picture no. 579. 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

Vote for Abraham: campaign song of '64 by Union.
Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia - 19th century Virginia.

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.

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1874, Oct. 1-Nov. 25

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1880, Jan. 31-Dec. 11

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Melrose Plantation, Slave Hospital, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA

Melrose Plantation, Slave Hospital, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchi...

Drawings of the Slave Hospital (Yucca House) were donated to the collection & categorized under the name Yucca House. See HABS No. LA-2-69-C. Significance: A former slave hospital in a Louisiana plantation; on... More

Melrose Plantation, Slave Hospital, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchitoches Parish, LA

Melrose Plantation, Slave Hospital, State Highway 119, Melrose, Natchi...

Drawings of the Slave Hospital (Yucca House) were donated to the collection & categorized under the name Yucca House. See HABS No. LA-2-69-C. Significance: A former slave hospital in a Louisiana plantation; on... More

House, Bracketville, Seminole-Negro Settlement

House, Bracketville, Seminole-Negro Settlement

Title transcribed from item. District no. 27. Picture no. 252. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Admin... More

Reverend Bill Green, ex-slave, San Antonio

Reverend Bill Green, ex-slave, San Antonio

420078. District no. 27. Picture no. 257. Official project no. 265-6903. Work project no. 6900(27). Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Wr... More

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1870, Nov. 29-1871, Jan. 7

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1875, Nov. 11-1876, Jan. 21

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1862, Apr. 30-June 18

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1862, Apr. 30-June 18

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1862, Apr. 30-June 18

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1862, Apr. 30-June 18

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Crowell-Cantey-Alexander House, State Road 165, Fort Mitchell, Russell County, AL

Crowell-Cantey-Alexander House, State Road 165, Fort Mitchell, Russell...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1867, Jan. 9-May 10

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1867, Jan. 9-May 10

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1867, Jan. 9-May 10

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Laura Plantation, 2247 Highway 18, Vacherie, St. James Parish, LA

Laura Plantation, 2247 Highway 18, Vacherie, St. James Parish, LA

The address was updated from "River Road" to "2247 Highway 18" to more accurately reflect its location. 1990 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Located on River Road 70 miles north of the city of Ne... More

Hacienda Mercedita Foundry, Sabanetas, Ponce Municipio, PR

Hacienda Mercedita Foundry, Sabanetas, Ponce Municipio, PR

Significance: A significant part of the Serralles family empire. Typical of the sugar cane plantations in Puerto Rico which underwent considerable technological change and became a full-mechanized producer of ... More

Sallie Wroe, Austin, gelatin silver print

Sallie Wroe, Austin, gelatin silver print

420264. Forms part of: Portraits of African American ex-slaves from the U.S. Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project slave narratives collections.

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Monocacy Aqueduct, 42.2 Miles above Tidewater (above Lock 27), Dickerson, Montgomery County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Monocacy Aqueduct, 42.2 Miles above Tidewater...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-25 Survey number: HABS MD-19 Building/structure dates: 1833 Initial Construction

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Monocacy Aqueduct, 42.2 Miles above Tidewater (above Lock 27), Dickerson, Montgomery County, MD

Chesapeake & Ohio Canal, Monocacy Aqueduct, 42.2 Miles above Tidewater...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-25 Survey number: HABS MD-19 Building/structure dates: 1833 Initial Construction

Green Hill Plantation & Main House, State Route 728, Long Island, Campbell County, Virginia

Green Hill Plantation & Main House, State Route 728, Long Island, Camp...

Significance: Outstanding example of early 19th century Virginia plantation architecture surviving with little or no alterations. A good representation of a self-sustaining community in the early and mid-1800s... More

Green Hill Plantation & Main House, State Route 728, Long Island, Campbell County, Virginia

Green Hill Plantation & Main House, State Route 728, Long Island, Camp...

Significance: Outstanding example of early 19th century Virginia plantation architecture surviving with little or no alterations. A good representation of a self-sustaining community in the early and mid-1800s... More

Green Hill Plantation & Main House, State Route 728, Long Island, Campbell County, Virginia

Green Hill Plantation & Main House, State Route 728, Long Island, Camp...

Significance: Outstanding example of early 19th century Virginia plantation architecture surviving with little or no alterations. A good representation of a self-sustaining community in the early and mid-1800s... More

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1861, July 18-Aug. 8

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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[Journey of a slave from the plantation to the battlefield]

[Journey of a slave from the plantation to the battlefield]

Uncut sheet of twelve illustrated cards presenting the journey of a slave from plantation life to the struggle for liberty, for which he gives his life, as a Union soldier during the Civil War. Attributed to J... More

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1874, Feb. 10-Mar. 2

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Slave pen, Alexandria, Virginia - A black and white photo of an old building

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

Musee Rosette Rochon, 1515 Pauger Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Musee Rosette Rochon, 1515 Pauger Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish,...

1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: Rosette Rochon was a wealthy free woman of color born in Mobile, Alabama in 1760. She was the daughter of Pierre Rochon, an early ship builder an... More

Musee Rosette Rochon, 1515 Pauger Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, LA

Musee Rosette Rochon, 1515 Pauger Street, New Orleans, Orleans Parish,...

1999 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: Rosette Rochon was a wealthy free woman of color born in Mobile, Alabama in 1760. She was the daughter of Pierre Rochon, an early ship builder an... More

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1852, Oct. 15-1855, Dec. 27

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilities, Bounded by West Broad, Jones, West Boundary & Hull Streets, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilitie...

Significance: The Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops are significant because they represent the major site component of one of the earliest attempts in the United States to plan and develop a who... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilities, Bounded by West Broad, Jones, West Boundary & Hull Streets, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilitie...

Significance: The Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops are significant because they represent the major site component of one of the earliest attempts in the United States to plan and develop a who... More

Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilities, Bounded by West Broad, Jones, West Boundary & Hull Streets, Savannah, Chatham County, GA

Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops & Terminal Facilitie...

Significance: The Central of Georgia Railway, Savannah Repair Shops are significant because they represent the major site component of one of the earliest attempts in the United States to plan and develop a who... More

Whitney Plantation, Louisiana Route 18, Wallace, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA

Whitney Plantation, Louisiana Route 18, Wallace, St. John the Baptist ...

1989 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N2019 Survey number: HABS LA-1194 Building/structure dates: 1810 Initial Construction National Register of His... More

Chatham, State Routes 3 & 607 vicinity, Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia

Chatham, State Routes 3 & 607 vicinity, Falmouth, Stafford County, Vir...

See also HALS VA-60 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS VA-339 Building/structure dates: 1771 Initial Construction

Chatham, State Routes 3 & 607 vicinity, Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia

Chatham, State Routes 3 & 607 vicinity, Falmouth, Stafford County, Vir...

See also HALS VA-60 for additional documentation. Survey number: HABS VA-339 Building/structure dates: 1771 Initial Construction

The Grove - Public domain portrait print

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

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1861, Dec. 28-1862, Feb. 1

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886; 1861, Dec. 28-1862, Feb. 1

Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...

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Freeman-Caver-Christian House, Upper Friendship Road, Oxford, Calhoun County, AL

Freeman-Caver-Christian House, Upper Friendship Road, Oxford, Calhoun ...

Survey number: HABS AL-470 Building/structure dates: ca. 1830 Initial Construction

Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.

Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, P...

Thomas Nast's celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War. Nast envisions a somewhat optimistic picture of the future of free blacks in the United States. The central scene ... More

Stampede of slaves from Hampton to Fortress Monroe

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.

Correspondence from Granville Sharp, Chairman of the Committee of London for Abolition of the Slave Trade, to Hercules Ross of North Britain, September 17, 1791. The letter bears the abolitionist seal, “Am I Not a Man and a Brother.”

Correspondence from Granville Sharp, Chairman of the Committee of Lond...

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Slave hire agreement, January 29, 1825. A promissory note for $184.75, the document also includes a list of clothing and a blanket to be given to the slave.

Slave hire agreement, January 29, 1825. A promissory note for $184.75,...

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Solomon Northup in his plantation suit.

Solomon Northup in his plantation suit.

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Receipts for slave purchases. 2 receipts on 1 page, from Richmond , VA from 1859.
Illustrated interviews with eminent public men on leading topics of the day [Frederick Douglass]

Illustrated interviews with eminent public men on leading topics of th...

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Status of slavery in the United States, 1775-1865.

Status of slavery in the United States, 1775-1865.

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A half century of freedom of the Negro in Ohio. [title page]

A half century of freedom of the Negro in Ohio. [title page]

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Portrait of Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer

Portrait of Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, journalist, and social r...

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Slave Cabins, "The Hermitage," Savannah, Georgia.

Slave Cabins, "The Hermitage," Savannah, Georgia.

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Phillis Wheatley. - Public domain portrait print

Phillis Wheatley. - Public domain portrait print

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Mississippi hoodo-doctors. - images Black History Month

Mississippi hoodo-doctors. - images Black History Month

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W. S. Scarborough.  Thirty years an Instructor - now President.

W. S. Scarborough. Thirty years an Instructor - now President.

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G. F. Woodson.  Dean of Theological Department.

G. F. Woodson. Dean of Theological Department.

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Kidnapping. - Public domain dedication image

Kidnapping. - Public domain dedication image

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Running away. (see page 345) - Public domain dedication image

Running away. (see page 345) - Public domain dedication image

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Frank's Famous Restaurant: Oyster and Chop House

Frank's Famous Restaurant: Oyster and Chop House

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Main street, Ante-Bellum Lexington.

Main street, Ante-Bellum Lexington.

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Edward Stone's coffle gang.

Edward Stone's coffle gang.

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Mode of whipping - Public domain dedication image

Mode of whipping - Public domain dedication image

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Class in First Aid. - Public domain dedication image

Class in First Aid. - Public domain dedication image

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The way they " catch men " in Pennsylvania.

The way they " catch men " in Pennsylvania.

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Down came the brutal lash - Drawing. Public domain image.

Down came the brutal lash - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Alexander Walters - Public domain portrait print

Alexander Walters - Public domain portrait print

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Arrest du conseil d'état du roi, qui ordonne que la gratification accordée au commerce pour la traite des nègres

Arrest du conseil d'état du roi, qui ordonne que la gratification acco...

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Office of Clay's True American, Lexington.

Office of Clay's True American, Lexington.

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Charles W. Chestnut. - A black and white photo of a man with a mustache

Charles W. Chestnut. - A black and white photo of a man with a mustach...

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Aunt Jonas.  She is Drualla Jones, aged ninety-four, and was the slave Thomas Ferrell.  She and two others were the only old slaves I found who were not loyal to their owners.  During the war she tried to burn her master's house.

Aunt Jonas. She is Drualla Jones, aged ninety-four, and was the slave...

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

Henry Bibb.
La traite par les Arabes de l' Afrique centrale et septentrionale.

La traite par les Arabes de l' Afrique centrale et septentrionale.

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Mrs. Harris canoeing on the Aruwimi, Upper Congo.

Mrs. Harris canoeing on the Aruwimi, Upper Congo.

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Autre caravane d' esclaves dans l'Afrique oèientale.

Autre caravane d' esclaves dans l'Afrique oèientale.

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Booker T. Washington. - Public domain portrait print

Booker T. Washington. - Public domain portrait print

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Slave state, Free state
Sugar plantation - Drawing. Public domain image.

Sugar plantation - Drawing. Public domain image.

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A good school, Vol. II No. VI - Book for children

A good school, Vol. II No. VI - Book for children

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Jack and Abby Landlord, aged one hundred and one hundred and ten years.

Jack and Abby Landlord, aged one hundred and one hundred and ten years...

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Cotton picking no. 1. [Woman carrying a bale of cotton on her head.]

Cotton picking no. 1. [Woman carrying a bale of cotton on her head.]

Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assembled it over a period of mo... More

No. XIX. Rice fields in South Carolina; No. XX. Two slave drivers and a backwoodsman with his rifle.
Samuel Ringold Ward

Samuel Ringold Ward

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Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

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Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

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Plan of a settlement to be made near Sierra Leona, on the Grain Coast of Africa: Intended more particularly for the service and happy establishment of blacks and people of colour, to be shipped as freemen under the direction of the Committee for Relieving the Black Poor, and under the protection of the British government

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

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Chariot in the Sky: a story of the Jubilee Singers

Chariot in the Sky: a story of the Jubilee Singers

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Chariot in the Sky: a story of the Jubilee Singers

Chariot in the Sky: a story of the Jubilee Singers

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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An Elementary History of America: including the contributions of the Negro race

An Elementary History of America: including the contributions of the N...

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Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,000 Negro shipyard workers are employed at the Bethlehem-Fairfield shipyards, where the Liberty ship is being rushed to completion. The noted orator and abolitionist leader worked as a ship caulker in the vicinity of this yard before he escaped from slavery. Smiling from porthole of the dock house is rivet heater Willie Smith

Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,0...

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