Date: | 04 19 1849 |
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Description: | Poster offering $600 reward for the return of three runaway slaves in Calvert County, Maryland. The three slaves are Henry Morsell, Jim Parker, and Bill Hu... |
Date: | 05 10 1855 |
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Description: | A poster advertising a $100 reward to be issued by Marcus Du Val for his runaway "servant" Matthew Turner. The poster includes a physical description of th... |
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Description: | Seated portrait of Peter D. Thomas (1847-1925) of Racine. Thomas was an escaped slave who joined the 15th Wisconsin Regiment during its service in Tennesse... |
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Description: | Sherman M. Booth, anti-slavery editor, shown seated reading newspaper. |
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Description: | Three-quarter length carte-de-visite of Sojourner Truth. The text at the bottom reads: "I sell the shadow to support the substance. Sojourner Truth." |
Date: | 06 22 1827 |
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Description: | Front page of "Freedom's Journal," Volume 1, #15. |
Date: | 1861 |
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Description: | Printed copy of a sermon, "The Duty of the Northern States in Relation to the Future of Slavery," delivered by Rev. William Henry Brisbane, minister of the... |
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Description: | Drawing showing escaped slave Joshua Glover being seized at Racine. |
Date: | 1837 |
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Description: | Image of a runaway slave with stick and satchel. |
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Description: | Studio portrait of Louis Hughes, seated and holding a book. |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
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Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Caroline Quarlls Watkins, taken when she lived in Sandwich, Ontario. |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | Monument to John Brown and the men killed during the Battle of Osawatomie. Those slain in the battle are buried underneath the monument. Chain link fence s... |
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Description: | A facsimile of the handwritten document by Abraham Lincoln, with additional decorations, published for the benefit of the United States Sanitary Commission... |
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Description: | Two illustrations depicting the capture by Europeans of Africans who were taken away on ships to be slaves. The caption is in French. |
Date: | 09 1863 |
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Description: | Proclamation made by the Episcopal Clergy of Philadelphia protesting the statement made by John Henry Hopkins, Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont, supporting... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Scene of 16 figures. A slave owner is raising his whip as black families are racing towards Fort Monroe, with some remaining behind picking cotton. The sla... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Freed male slave in a straw hat. He is superimposed on a black star with the abbreviations of the states of the Confederacy. Behind the black star is an up... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | A freed slave with a hoe in his left hand and his right hand on his hip. Caption at the top reads, "Massa can't have dis chile, dat's what's de matter." Ca... |
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