Slavery & Abolition | Mitchell Collection of African American History

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Slave Sale

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Original Hand-Colored Map of Africa (c. 1640)

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Original Hand-Colored Map of Africa (c. 1640)

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The Terrible “Middle Passage”

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1667 Manhattan Land Transfer to a Free Black’s Family

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Slave Mutiny on the Amistad

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John Brown Invades Harpers Ferry, (West) Virginia

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Extraordinary Eyewitness Account of John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry

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1849 Public Sale of Estate Slaves in Missouri

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Cherokee Indian Sells His Black Slave

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“A Slave Auction at the South” During the Civil War

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Original Aetna Slave Insurance Policy (1859)

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Slave Dealer’s Business Card (c. 1860)

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Nat Turner Slave Rebellion in Virginia (1831)

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Denmark Vesey Slave Insurrection in Charleston, SC (1822)

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Slave Shackles

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Charleston Slave Tag (c. 1851)

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The Infamous Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850

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Scarce Copy of Harriet Tubman Biography

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The Rare First Autobiography (1845) of Frederick Douglass

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Sojourner Truth (c. 1797-1883)

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Diary of a Slave Overseer on the Hardscrabble Plantation, Louisiana (1859 – 1861)

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Hardscrabble Plantation, Louisiana (1859 – 1861)

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Reward Poster for a Runaway Slave

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Confederate States of America $100 Note with Vignette of Slaves Hoeing in the Field

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The New York Herald of Jan 3, 1863 Publishes Emancipation Proclamation

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Original 1863 Currier & Ives Lithograph Commemorating President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

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