Joseph is sold into slavery by his brothers
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eceipt for $1235.00 for sale of Albert to S.O. Wood, Receipt for $1,31...
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Joseph is sold into slavery by his brothers
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Joseph is sold into slavery by his brothers
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The story of Joseph. Joseph sold to the Ishmaelites.
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Heinrich Aldegrever - Sophonisba drinking poison.
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[Black slaves working in sugar mill. Hispaniola. Part 5, plate 2]
Illus. in: De Bay, Americae...1590. Reference copy may be in E141.B88. Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - Plantation crops Sugar, LOT 4410A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Excise inquisition erecting by English slaves under the scourge of the...
A British satire on an attempt by William Pitt and George Rose to transfer to excise law certain import duties; standing in opposition is Edward Thurlow. The central image shows Britannia, wrapped in a blanket ... More
A ship disembarking to left, two galley slaves stand and one sits next...
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Clarkson, Thomas - Public domain portrait engraving
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Clarkson, Thomas - Public domain portrait engraving
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Clarkson, Thomas - Public domain portrait engraving
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Michaeli de Ruyter, batavorum, architalasso, invincibili, incomparabil...
Print shows the body of Michiel de Ruyter lying on a bier in front of a memorial structure with two columns depicting scenes of naval victories. He is wearing a breastplate and is holding a sword and baton. Sev... More
Germantown Friends' protest against slavery 1688. [Facsimile].
Not in Evans.; Title.; On verso: 02-83-384.36. 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 14... More
Population of Albany County & Indians 1689 - 1698.
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Don Quixote releases the Galley Slaves (Six Illustrations for Don Quix...
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Don Quixote Releases the Galley Slaves (Six Illustrations for Don Quix...
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W'rede straffe van een Planter aan zyn knegt
Planter whipping slave tied to tree. Illus. in: Exquemelin, Histoire der Boecaniers...(1700), facing p. 29. Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - Slavery 1700. This record contains unverified, old data from capti... More
Comparative table of populations in the Province of New York, 1703-171...
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An account of the families of Germans settled on Hudson's River in the...
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An account of the number of people in the Province of New York, A.D. 1...
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Le code noir ou Edit du roy - Public domain document scan
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Pietro Antonio Novelli - A Seated Slave
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[Slave factories, or compounds, maintained by traders from four Europe...
Illus. in: A New and general collection of voyages / Thomas Astley. London, 1746, vol. 3, p. 64.
Relation d'une conspiration tramée par les nègres : dans l'îsle de S. ...
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Design for a Decorated Console with Two Slaves on Top of an Eagle
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The election, a medley, humbly inscribed to Squire Lilliput, professor...
Cartoon shows the old courthouse in Philadelphia during the October 1, 1764 election where a line of men wait at the steps on the right to enter the courthouse and cast their votes; in the foreground, many men,... More
Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston
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Union, activity and freedom, or division, supineness and slavery. My d...
Positive Photostat. 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 103, Folder 33.
[Title page of An argument in the case of James Sommersett ...]
Text in: Hargrave, Francis. An argument in the case of James Sommersett,... London : Printed for the author and sold by W. Otridge ..., 1772, title page. Published in: Slavery in the courtroom : an annotated bi... More
Appraisal of Property -- Samuel Turner Estate. [Appraisal of slaves fr...
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Boston, April 20th, 1773. Sir. The efforts made by the legislative of ...
Positive Photostat.; Not in Evans.; Slavery. 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 37, Folder 16.
Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston
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Statistics of the population of the Province of New York, 1647-1774. [...
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To the inhabitants of New York. My dear friends and fellow citizens. A...
Evans 13658.; On verso: 1774. 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 107, Folder 14a.
In Provincial congress, Concord, April 12, 1775. Whereas the preservat...
Photographic copy.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ac. 373. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copie... More
Address to the soldiers. Gentlemen. You are about to embark for Americ...
Stamped on verso: 452. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 38, Fold... More
Prospect Hill. Bunker’s Hill. I. Seven dollars a month. - - I. Three p...
Propaganda hand bills.; Stamped on verso: 452. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collec... More
Antislavery medallion, 18th century, Staffordshire, England
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Revolutionary War [Request for compensation to be paid to Nathaniel Se...
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Lafayette, James Armistead [Facsimile of the Marquis de Lafayette's or...
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Study For Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, or The Genius of A...
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General mourning, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon
Print shows a well-dressed West Indian? couple with big smiles on their faces, in the background is a depressed man (a plantation owner?) holding a piece of paper on which is written "No more credit given by [?... More
Anne-Louis Girodet-Trioson - Jean-Baptiste Belley
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France. Britain. Freedom. Slavery, British Cartoon Print
"A design in two compartments. On the left the triumph of Necker in a land of 'Freedom', in the other that of Pitt in a land of 'Slavery"..." (Source: George) [Gillray]. Price 2sh. This record contains unverifi... More
Abolition of the slave trade, or the man the master, British Cartoon P...
Illustration shows the reversal of roles for slaves and slave masters, with former slaves now in the role of the slave master. No known restrictions on publication. Forms part of British Cartoon Prints Collect... More
An address to the public, from the Pennsylvania Society for promoting ...
Title.; Imprint 2.; Franklin, B.; Not in Evans. 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 14... More
Letter, Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker expressing his belief th...
Reproduction number: A54 (color slide); LC-MSS-27748-21 (B&W negative) While serving as secretary of state, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), one of Virginia's largest planters and slaveholders, wrote this 30 Augus... More
The gradual abolition off the slave trade or leaving of sugar by degre...
Print shows George III sitting at a table with the Queen and two of his daughters, and the Queen's Keeper of the Robes, Juliana Elizabeth Schwellenbergen holding a bottle of "Brandy", discussing the use of suga... More
The abolition of the slave trade Or the inhumanity of dealers in human...
Print shows sailor on a slave ship suspending an African girl by her ankle from a rope over a pulley. Captain John Kimber stands on the left with a whip in his hand. Attributed to I. Cruikshank in BM CPPS. Cat... More
French Liberty – British Slavery, James Gillray, Hannah Humphrey
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French Liberty. British Slavery, James Gillray, Hannah Humphrey
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Group of Negros, as imported to be sold for Slaves
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"I would never have drawn my sword in the cause of America if I could ...
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"Your late purchase of an estate with a view of emancipating the slave...
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Printers' picture gallery. The following device is made up entirely of...
Anti-slavery.; 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 133, Folder 29.
One hour of American slavery is fraught with more misery than ages of ...
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All men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain in...
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I don't know as I can better serve the cause I love so well than to di...
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What is life or rest to me so long as I have a commission direct from ...
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Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out o...
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Jack attacked by Quashe and Sam
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Shall freedom or slavery triumph : Let Massachusetts speak!
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All men are by nature equally free and independent and have certain in...
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I tremble for my country when I remember that God is just and that his...
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"I don't know what weakness may come over me, but I don't believe I sh...
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[A series of statistical charts illustrating the condition of the desc...
Maps show percentages of African Americans in the United States between 1800 and 1890. Title from LOT 11931, no. 37; part title from item. Chart prepared by Atlanta University students for the Negro Exhibit of ... More
It is a debt we owe the purity of religion to show that it is at varia...
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"I don't know what weakness may come over me, but I don't believe I sh...
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Yes whether on the scaffold high or in the battle's van, the fittest p...
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Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out o...
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Thus saith the lord: Ye have not hearken'd unto me in proclaiming libe...
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Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them.
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Baltimore House, Dependency, 4811 Riverdale Road, Riverdale Park, Prin...
2000 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: This is the only surviving outbuilding of Riversdale, an 1801 plantation house in Prince George's County, Maryland. Dendochronology of its timbers suggests t... More
Birth Certificate for child named Charity, born to Nanny, signed by El...
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Birth Certificate for child named Jane, born to Maria, signed by Roger...
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Caty Ann Birth Certificate - Public domain document scan
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portrait from "Gleanings in Africa; exhibiting a faithful and correct ...
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Letter begins, "We William Bryan Anderson Rice and Matthew Rice being ...
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Begins "I certify that negro named Jenny is at liberty to hire herself...
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Royal Portuguese Decree
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[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.
Begins "I John Gassaway register of wills..."
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William Berryman - Maroon. Buckra reading their pass
Drawing shows a white man (Buckra) reading the pass of Maroons (runaway slaves) on a road. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs Reading Room.
A Thanksgiving sermon: preached January 1, 1808 in St. Thomas's, or th...
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The last act of slavery arrived. The new embargo law ...... (No. 6) [J...
Lower right hand corner wanting. 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 227, Folder 25.
Negroes just landed from a Slave Ship.
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Letter from Samuel May, Leicester, Mass., to Richard Davis Webb, Jan. ...
May praises the support of the abolition cause in its early days by its English friends and discusses the controversies between the English and American abolitionists during the war. He speaks of the attitude o... More
Freedom paper for Noah Powers. - Public domain document scan
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Certificate from County of NY of manumission for John Moore, dated Apr...
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Letter stating that $500 was paid for the purchase of Joseph Boswell, ...
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Manuscript of an officer of the highest class moving to Portugal
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A Planter and his wife on a journey
Illustration showing two slaves carrying woman in sedan chair, slave woman with baggage on head, and planter riding horse on country road..
A Lady going to visit - Public domain engraving
Illustration showing slaves carrying woman in sedan chair across street. Illus. in: Travels in Brazil / Henry Koster. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816, pl. opposite p. 188.