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Free African-American Family, Post Civil War, c 1898, Vintage Photograph.

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The work-weathered hands of Henry Brooks, a former slave from Greene County, Georgia.

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Abraham Lincoln , the 16th President of the United States of America , at the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, which gave enslaved people...

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Formerly enslaved people in Barbados march through the streets to the sound of cymbals, drum and concertina as they celebrate their emancipation....

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Proclamation of the Abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies, 27 April 1848. By François-Auguste Biard, born François Thérèse Biard .

Spanish ships at the siege of Pensacola

1800s THREE AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN FIELD HAND SLAVES TENDING CROP ON COLONIAL OR ANTEBELLUM SOUTHERN TOBACCO PLANTATION

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Plantation, Tobacco Crop, USA

Students and teachers pose outside the Freedmen's Bureau school in Beaufort, South Carolina.

African American School

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Emancipation from an engraved illustration by Thomas Nast 1840-1902, c1865. Thomas Nast's celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the...

Emancipation from an engraved illustration by Thomas Nast 1840-1902, c1865. 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 t

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Photo of handwritten record showing General Orders, Number 3, issued by United States Major General Gordon Granger, June 19, 1865. It reads "The...

General Orders, No. 3

Juneteenth, Freedom, History

The Recruit, 1866. Artist Thomas Waterman Wood.

A Bit Of War History: The Recruit

American Civil War, Slavery, Freedom

African Americans stand outside a contraband school, or Freedman's Village, in Arlington, Virginia, ca. 1860s.

Freed Slaves in Arlington, Virginia

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Emancipation from an engraved illustration by Thomas Nast 1840-1902, c1865. Thomas Nast's celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the...

Emancipation from an engraved illustration by Thomas Nast 1840-1902, c1865. 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 t

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1860s 1864 FREED SLAVE FAMILIES AND CONTRABAND THE REAR GUARD OF GENERAL SHERMAN'S MARCH THROUGH GEORGIA USA

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Slavery, Freedom, History

An etching from a family portrait of George Washington with Martha Washington seated opposite him, his arm rested on the shoulder of his...

George Washington And Family

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The American Declaration of Independence illustrated by Dominique Fabronius, artist c1861. An idealistic call for emancipation of the slaves. Borne...

The American Declaration of Independence illustrated by Dominique Fabronius, artist c1861.

Freedom, Slavery

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Family of former slaves outside their ramshackle house in Fredericksburg, Virginia, ca. 1862-1865.

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Fugitive slaves fleeing from Maryland to Delaware by way of the 'Underground Railroad', 1850-1851. The Underground Railroad was a secret organisation...

Fugitive slaves fleeing from Maryland to Delaware by way of the 'Underground Railroad', 1850-1851.

Slavery, Underground Railroad - US History, 1850-1859

The members of the Liberian senate of 1893, mostly made up of freed African American slaves, posing together for a group portrait.

Liberian Senate Members

Liberia, Senate, Freedom

Wilson Chinn, a freed slave from Louisiana, poses with equipment used to punish slaves. Such images were used to set Northern resolve against...

Punishments for Slaves

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