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Fugitive Slave Stock Photos

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The runaway slaves, Anthony Burns and Thomas Sims, returned to slavery- their march through the streets of Boston, 1899. Creator: Unknown.

The Runaway Slaves

Slavery, Fugitive

Proof copy of the first printing of The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 consisting of a single sheet of U.S. Government-issued blue stock paper folded...

Proof Copy Of The First Printing Of The Fugitive Slave Act Of 1850

Slavery, Fugitive, Law

Reward poster circulated in Ripley County, Missouri after March 2, 1860 when an African American slave ran away from his owner, Apos Tucker.

Wanted Poster For Runaway Slave

Slavery, Fugitive, Wanted Poster

Detail of a Portland Freedom Trail marker at 53 India Street, where Elias and Elizabeth Widgery Thomas lived and provided a safe house for fugitive...

USA, Fugitive, Slavery

men enforcing the fugitive slave clause during the american civil war in the united states - 19th century - fugitive slave stock illustrations

Men Enforcing the Fugitive Slave Clause During the American Civil War in the United States - 19th Century

Slavery, Fugitive, American Culture

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

Large crowd of police guard the fugitive slave Thomas Sims as they move him to the docks for extradition to Georgia. The mayor of Boston and police...

Extraditing Fugitive Slave

Fugitive, Slavery, Police Force

Ride for Liberty - The Fugitive Slaves by Eastman Johnson

A Ride for Liberty - The Fugitive Slaves by Eastman Johnson

Slavery, Fugitive, Riding

The Runaway. Wooden engraving used on handbills offering rewards to those who found fugitive slaves United States, Washington. Library of Congress, .

The Runaway. Wooden engraving used on handbills offering rewards to those who found fugitive slaves

Slavery, Runaway, Incentive

Fugitive slave family crossing the Rappahannock River into Union-held territory in Virginia.

Fugitive Family

Slavery, Fugitive, USA

Cover page illustration from the Leeds Anti-Slavery Series Number 32 titled The Fugitive Slave Bill And Its Effects shows an escaped slave partially...

Slave Owner Shooting A Fugitive Slave

Boston broadside newspaper sheet of 1851, offers an example of open defiance of the Fugitive Slave Act.

defiance of the Fugitive Slave Act

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Fugitive slaves going to the fortification works

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

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

Slavery, Underground Railroad - US History, Maryland - US State

Virginia-ORIGINAL CAPTION READS: Fugitive Negroes fording the Rappahannock River.

Fugitive Slaves Ford Rappahannock River

Slavery, Fugitive, Virginia - US State

Notice from Wm Radford of a $20 reward for return of an enslaved man called Shepherd, who has escaped from the plantation of John Haas, Bedford...

Reward Notice For Runaway

Slavery, USA, Plantation

Broadside with printed black text on off-white paper. Large, bold text at the top reads [$1000 / REWARD!] Followed by smaller text reading [RAN AWAY...

Broadside Offering Reward For Capture Of George

Slavery, Fugitive, National Museum of African American History and Culture

Angry citizens in Boston protesting a 1854 court order to return Anthony Burns to slavery in Virginia, in accordance with the Fugitive Slave Act....

Marshal's Posse with Burns Moving Down State Street Illustration

Virginia - US State, Fugitive, Demonstration

Broadside portrait of Anthony Burns with scenes from his life. After his arrest and trial in Boston in 1854, a court ordered Anthony Burns returned...

Print Showing Scenes from the Life of Anthony Burns

Group of abolitionists, known as the Oberlin Rescuers, outside the Cuyahoga County Jail, Ohio, from which they had rescued a fugitive slave called...

Oberlin Rescuers

Fugitive, Slavery

Page from a book titled 'The Fugitive Slave Law' with engraved depictions of enslaved people, both carrying bundles, one carrying theirs on a stick...

United States Law

Fugitive, Slavery, Law

Thomas Stanford, M.A., M.D., D.D., LL.D., 1897. Creator: Unknown.

P. Thomas Stanford

Poster warning Blacks in Boston [Place: Boston]. Creator: Unknown.

Poster Warning Blacks In Boston - Kidnappers

19th Century, USA, Slavery

Portrait of Civil War 'contrabands,' fugitive slaves who were emancipated upon reaching the North, sitting outside a house, possible in Freedman's...

Civil War Contrabands

Slavery, USA, Black People

Map showing routes of the 'Underground Railroad,' used by fugitive slaves to escape into the free states of the United States or Canada, between 1830...

Underground Railroad, Between 1830 - 1865

Underground Railroad - US History, Slavery, Map

Painting after The Underground Railroad by Charles T. Webber shows Levi Coffin, his wife Catherine, and Hannah Haydock assisting a group of fugitive...

Painting After The Underground Railroad by Charles T. Webber

Underground Railroad - US History, Slavery

The Hunted Slaves, 1862. This depicts a fugitive enslaved man and woman beset by three mastiff dogs in a marshy landscape. On the right side of the...

The Hunted Slaves

Slavery, Fugitive, Punishment

Poster offers a cash reward for the return of a runaway slave to his oppressor, Monroe County, Missouri, 1850s. After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850...

Slavery, Fugitive, Runaway

Satire on the antagonism between Northern abolitionists on the one hand, and Secretary of State Daniel Webster and other supporters of enforcement of...

satire on the antagonism between Northern abolitionists and Daniel Webster

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

Fugitive slaves fleeing from Maryland to Delaware by way of the 'Underground Railroad'.

Slavery, Underground Railroad - US History, USA

Nat Turner is accosted in the forest by a slave hunter. Turner was an enslaved man who led an uprising, killing his enslaver's family and about fifty...

Discovery of Nat Turner Engraving by William Henry Shelton

Slavery, Nat Turner - Rebellion Leader, Fugitive

Painting after The Underground Railroad by Charles T. Webber shows Levi Coffin, his wife Catherine, and Hannah Haydock assisting a group of fugitive...

Painting After The Underground Railroad by Charles T. Webber

Underground Railroad - US History, Slavery

The North and South continue the battle over the fugitive slave law.

PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATION OF THE FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW.

Fugitive, Slavery, Law

Large crowd of abolitionists gathered outside the Boston Court House during a case involving a fugitive slave. Illustration from Gleason's Pictorial...

Boston Court House Illustration

Fugitive, Slavery, Law

Illustration of angry citizens in Boston protesting a 1854 court order to return Anthony Burns to slavery in Virginia, in accordance with the...

The Rendition of Anthony Burns Engraving

Slavery, Fugitive, Virginia - US State

The Fugitive Song: Frederick Douglass, anti-slavery song. Engraving 1845.

Frederick Douglass Fugitive Song

Frederick Douglass, Fugitive, Slavery

General James Wilkinson's letter to Henry Thompson stating that "25 negroes...have absconded or refused to work", 1817. Creator: Unknown.

General James Wilkinsons Letter To Henry Thompson...,

Twenty-eight fugitives escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, 1872. Creator: Unknown.

Twenty-Eight Fugitives Escaping From The Eastern Shore Of Maryland

Maryland - US State, Slavery, History

John Anderson the Fugitive Slave in Canada.

John Anderson the Fugitive Slave in Canada

This book is a sixth edition of The Justices' Practice Under the Laws of Maryland; Including the Duties of a Constable, and also of a Coroner by John...

The Justices Practice Under The Laws Of Maryland,

Slavery, Fugitive

ellen craft (xxxl with lots of details) - fugitive slave stock illustrations

ELLEN CRAFT (XXXL with lots of details)

Engraved Image, Craft, Slavery

Detail of a Portland Freedom Trail marker at 53 India Street, where Elias and Elizabeth Widgery Thomas lived and provided a safe house for fugitive...

USA, Fugitive, Slavery

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culture presentation in Bahia

Fugitive, Slavery

torture of the collar inflicted on runaway slaves. - fugitive slave stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images

Torture of the collar inflicted on runaway slaves.

Slavery, American Revolution, American Civil War

This printing of the Fugitive Slave Bill was sponsored by anti-slavery groups as a protest against the new law that required local and state...

The Fugitive Slave Bill

Slavery, Millard Fillmore, 19th Century

Map of the United States, illustrating the 'underground railroad,' showing the lines of travel, marked in red, of routes taken by fugitive slaves to...

Map Of The Underground Railroad, Traveled By Fugitive Slaves

Underground Railroad - US History, Map, Slavery

An abolitionist poster from Massachusetts which condemns the Fugitive Slave Law and the Massachusetts politicians who voted for it.

Abolitionist Poster

Slavery, Abolitionism - Anti-slavery Movement, USA

An Anti-Whig editorial regarding the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

Anti-Fugitive Slave Law Editorial

Slavery, USA, Law

Arrival from Maryland, 1859; Ann Maria Jackson and her seven children, 1872. Creator: Unknown.

Arrival From Maryland

Slavery, Maryland - US State, Child

An engraving from William Still's book, The Underground Railroad depicts fugitive African American Slaves shooting slave catchers who pursue them as...

A Bold Stroke for Freedom Book Illustration

Underground Railroad - US History, Slavery, Covered Wagon

Close up of Daguerreotype after Ezra Greenleaf Weld at the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law Convention, Cazenovia, New York, 21-22th August 1850; the Edmonson...

1850 Fugitive Slave Law Convention

Frederick Douglass, Slavery, Abolitionism - Anti-slavery Movement

Contrabands at headquarters of General Lafayette, Photograph shows a group of African American refugees with Union soldiers in front of General...

Contrabands at headquarters of General Lafayette

Charity Still, who twice escaped from slavery, 1897. Creator: Unknown.

Slavery, USA, Women

These fugitive slaves are fleeing from Maryland to Delaware by way of the Underground Railroad, 1850.

These fugitive slaves are fleeing from Maryland to Delaware by way of the Underground Railroad.

Slavery, Underground Railroad - US History, Underground

The Emancipation statue, depicting a slave breaking the chains of captivity as Abraham Lincoln reads the Emancipation Proclomation, is seen on...

US-POLITICS-HISTORY-LINCOLN

Prayer meeting in a contraband camp, Washington 1887. Creator: J. J. Cade.

Prayer Meeting In A Contraband Camp

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

Freedom, Slavery

Former slave cabin sits on the edge of the Combahee River in South Carolina's rice plantation country. The fugitive slave Harriet Tubman returned t...

American historical sites

Slavery, River Combahee, Abolitionism - Anti-slavery Movement

Châtiment d'un esclave fugitif dans l'empire Ottoman.

Châtiment d'un esclave fugitif dans l'empire Ottoman

Glass lantern slide illustration depicts a fugitive slave, early to mid nineteenth century.

'A Runaway Slave'

Slavery, Fugitive