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
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 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 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 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;...
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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
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
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;...
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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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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, 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
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
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;...
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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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Crowell-Cantey-Alexander House, State Road 165, Fort Mitchell, Russell...
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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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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
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
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...
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...
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, 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, 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, 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;...
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[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;...
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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,...
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,...
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;...
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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 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 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 ...
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, 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, 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
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;...
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Alexander Hamilton Stephens Papers: General Correspondence, 1784-1886;...
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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, 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
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 Lond...
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Slave hire agreement, January 29, 1825. A promissory note for $184.75,...
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Solomon Northup in his plantation suit.
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Illustrated interviews with eminent public men on leading topics of th...
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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]
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Portrait of Frederick Douglass, abolitionist, journalist, and social r...
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Slave Cabins, "The Hermitage," Savannah, Georgia.
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Phillis Wheatley. - Public domain portrait print
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Mississippi hoodo-doctors. - images Black History Month
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W. S. Scarborough. Thirty years an Instructor - now President.
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G. F. Woodson. Dean of Theological Department.
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Kidnapping. - Public domain dedication image
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Running away. (see page 345) - Public domain dedication image
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Frank's Famous Restaurant: Oyster and Chop House
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Main street, Ante-Bellum Lexington.
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Edward Stone's coffle gang.
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Mode of whipping - Public domain dedication image
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Class in First Aid. - Public domain dedication image
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The way they " catch men " in Pennsylvania.
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Down came the brutal lash - Drawing. Public domain image.
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Alexander Walters - Public domain portrait print
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Arrest du conseil d'état du roi, qui ordonne que la gratification acco...
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Office of Clay's True American, Lexington.
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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...
aunt phebe uncle tom and others character studies among the old slaves of the south fifty years after
La traite par les Arabes de l' Afrique centrale et septentrionale.
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Mrs. Harris canoeing on the Aruwimi, Upper Congo.
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Autre caravane d' esclaves dans l'Afrique oèientale.
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Booker T. Washington. - Public domain portrait print
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Sugar plantation - Drawing. Public domain image.
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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...
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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
Samuel Ringold Ward
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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
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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
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Chariot in the Sky: a story of the Jubilee Singers
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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation
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An Elementary History of America: including the contributions of the N...
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Baltimore, Maryland. Building the SS Frederick Douglass. More than 6,0...
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