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Margaret Stewart - Queen of Natchez Mardi Gras.

Collection: Stewart Photograph Collection.Call number: PI/1992.0006.System ID: 102148..Link to the catalog ( ) ..Margaret Stewart - Queen of Natchez Mardi Gras...Please see our profile page ( http://www.flickr... More

Inner City, August 1973 - U.S. National Archives Public Domain photogr...

Original Caption: Inner City, August 1973..U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-7488..Photographer: Swanson, Dick...Subjects:.Environmental protection.Natural resources.Philadelphia (Philadelphia ... More

Untitled (Native American in buffalo headdress)

Artist: Richard Throssel.Artist Bio: American, 1882 - 1933.Creation Date: c. 1910.Process: gelatin silver print.Credit Line: Gift of Graham and Susan Nash.Accession Number: 2003.003.053

Glass cup in the shape of a negro head

Glass objects, Roman Empire. Public domain photograph of archaeological object, Roman Empire, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Head of a negro man - Public domain dedication museum photo

Late Classical Public domain photograph of ancient Greek artifact, archaeological object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of ancient Greek artifact, ... More

Terracotta vase in the form of a black African youth's head

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Head of a negro boy - Public domain museum image. A statue of a head o...

Accession Number: 89.2.2065 Public domain photograph of ancient Greek artifact, archaeological object, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of ancient Gre... More

Head of a negro man - Public domain museum image. A statue of a man's ...

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Negro, Salvatore - Public domain portrait engraving

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Aerial View of Virginia Union University, 1500 North

Description: These buildings of Virginia granite form part of a fifty-five acre campus. The Institution was chartered in 1896. It offers Liberal Arts and Theological courses to 500 negro college students each... More

Virginia Union University, 1500 North Lombardy St., Richmond, Va.

Description: These buildings of Virginia granite form part of a fifty-five acre campus. The Institution was chartered in 1896. It offers Liberal Arts and Theological courses to 500 negro college students each... More

Landschap met vrouw rijdend op een muilezel langs de Aqua Negro tussen...

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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.

Joannes van Doetechum I - Portugees in een draagstoel

Een rijke Portugees laat zich door twee dienaren in een draagstoel verplaatsen. Een andere dienaar draagt een zonnescherm. Een deel van de groep dienaren is inheems, zie links de belettering "Negros". Achter he... More

Landschap met vrouw rijdend op een muilezel langs de Aqua Negro tussen...

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Landschap met vrouw rijdend op een muilezel langs de Aqua Negro tussen...

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Landschap met vrouw rijdend op een muilezel langs de Aqua Negro tussen...

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Landschap met vrouw rijdend op een muilezel langs de Aqua Negro tussen...

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Nicolaes Ryckmans - Palazzo Di Negro

Voorgevel van Palazzo Di Negro, gelegen aan de via San Luca te Genua. Het palazzo werd gebouwd tussen 1585 en 1587 voor Ambrogio Di Negro, doge van Genua.

Plattegrond van de begane grond van het Palazzo Ambrogio Di Negro te G...

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Plattegrond van de eerste verdieping van het Palazzo Ambrogio Di Negro...

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Opstand van de façade van het Palazzo Ambrogio Di Negro te Genua

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Landschap met vrouw rijdend op een muilezel langs de Aqua Negro tussen...

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Landschap met vrouw rijdend op een muilezel langs de Aqua Negro tussen...

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Landschap met vrouw rijdend op een muilezel langs de Aqua Negro tussen...

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Landschap met vrouw rijdend op een muilezel langs de Aqua Negro tussen...

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Landschap met vrouw rijdend op een muilezel langs de Aqua Negro tussen...

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Portret van Jakob Johann Wenceslaus Dobrzensky de Negro Ponte

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Portret van Jakob Johann Wenceslaus Dobrzensky de Negro Ponte

Jakob Johann Wenceslaus Dobrzensky de Negro Ponte, professor natuurkunde aan de universiteit van Praag, op 38-jarige leeftijd. De prent heeft een Latijns onderschrift.

Pas-kaarte van de Zuyd-west-kust van Africa, van Cabo Negro tot beoost...

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Thomas Hees with his Nephews Jan and Andries Hees and a Servant

Thomas Hees served as a diplomat in Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Among other duties, he negotiated the purchase of the freedom of Dutch slaves and protested against the privateering of Dutch ships. Hees had hims... More

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

[Title page of Anthony Benezet, Observations on the Inslaving, importi...

Illus. in: Anthony Benezet, Observations on the Inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes; ... extracted from ... the Yearly-meeting of ... Quakers. Germantown, 1760, title page. Reference copy may be in L... More

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

The life and dying speech of Arthur, a negro man who was executed at W...

Positive Photostat.; 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 36, Folder 26.

Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston

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[Hibernia in distress], British Cartoon Print

Print shows Hibernia, a woman representing Ireland, lying on the floor holding a broken harp, Lord Townshend is holding her down with his left foot; on the left, Lord North reaches into a money bag labeled with... More

Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston

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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

"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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Home incidents, accidents, &c. The colored voter ; Pursuit of a breakf...

Illustrations that accompany twelve stories of mishaps and curiosities including an African American Union soldier wrongly denied the right to vote, a Romani woman earning money telling fortunes, an explosion a... More

Box Containing Forty-Four Samples of Wood from Surinam

Rechthoekige doos met vier en veertig houtmonsters: 1. groenhart (Nectandra rodiaei) 2. bijlhout (walaba, Eperua spec.) 3. purperhart (Peltogyne spec.) 4. bolletrie (Manilkara surinamensis) 5. peto (mora, Dimor... More

One hour of American slavery is fraught with more misery than ages of ...

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The progress of freedom. On the 6th of April St. Louis elected a mayor...

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 71, Folder 23.

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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Albinos, or white negroes - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Con...

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Chapman.

Execute judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is spoiled out o...

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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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Henry Clay's bulbous panteloons sic or where the coffee went to

Drawing shows an Anglo-African (or African American) cabin boy named "Henry Clay" on board a ship; he has been caught by another sailor with a stash of stolen coffee that he has hidden in pantaloons. Inscribed... More

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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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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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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Wealth and respectability. Book illustration from Library of Congress,...

Negro servant with gun and dogs accosting old woman for poaching a small bundle of twigs. Hand-colored etching by Vain Right after drawing by Ambery. Published by S.W. Fores. Forms part of : British Cartoon Pr... More

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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Head of Negro man wearing cap, front and back view

Title transcribed from finding aid. Verso: Unidentified objects. Public domain photograph related to race relations, African Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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

Receipt for African American slave

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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.

The New Union Club, British Cartoon Print

A design based on Gillray's The Union Club, No. 9699 (1801), the roistering fraternizers being English and Negroes, in place of English and Irish. Color engraving by G. Cruikshank. See: British Museum Departmen... More

James Monroe Papers: Oversized, 1802-1819, Series 4, Addenda, 1778-183...

Grand bobalition, or "Great anniversary fussible"

Another in the "bobalition" series of broadsides parodying the manners, illiteracy, and dialect of Boston blacks. (See no. 1819-2.) The illustration shows a black militia troop marching from left to right. The ... More

Letter from George Jeffrey Tillotson, [New Haven], to Amos Augustus Ph...

In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, George Jeffrey Tillotson, says he looked for a dictionary as requested, but found only one with some missing pages. He gives some encouraging words related to the commencement ... More

[Town plan for Mesurado, Liberia]

American Colonization Society Papers. Published in: The African-American mosaic, a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black history and culture / Debra Newman Ham, ed. Washington, D.C. : Librar... More

Letter from George Jeffrey Tillotson, [New Haven], to Amos Augustus Ph...

In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, George Jeffrey Tillotson talks about their friendship, his college life, his decision to be a minister, and the state of religion. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from George Jeffrey Tillotson, [New Haven], to Amos Augustus Ph...

In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, George Jeffrey Tillotson talks about his college life and different student societies in college. He also discusses the prospect of a religious revival. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

The sailor's description of a chase & capture / J Sherm, invt. [Lieut....

"A burly sailor (right) sits with five other sailors, one a negro, and two perhaps being petty officers, drinking grog at a plank-table slung from the roof ..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified ... More

Letter from George Jeffrey Tillotson, [New Haven], to Amos Augustus Ph...

In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, George Jeffrey Tillotson reflects upon their friendship and talks about his college life, which continues to be pleasant. He also discusses the state of religion in New Haven. ... More

Letter from George Jeffrey Tillotson, [New Haven], to Amos Augustus Ph...

In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, George Jeffrey Tillotson talks about his college life and religious prospects of Yale College. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from William Lloyd Garrison, Baltimore, [Md.], to Ephraim Willi...

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Gate & slave market at Pernambuco / drawn by Augs. Earle ; engraved by...

Includes view of Count Maurice's gate near slave market. Illus. in: Journal of a voyage to Brazil, and residence there, during part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823 / Maria Graham. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, O... More

Letter from Maria Weston Chapman to Anne Warren Weston and Deborah Wes...

M[aria] Weston Chapman writes to Deborah Weston and Anne Warren Weston in regards to her children and in regards to her absence. She writes, "Do not forget me in my absence but speak often of me..when I return ... More

Title page of a pamphlet: A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery ...

Illus. in: A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States, without Danger or Loss to the Citizens of the South (Baltimore: Benj. Lundy, 1825), title page. Reference copy may be in LCQJ, Spring... More

Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe, [Andover, Massachusetts], to Willia...

In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, William Twining discusses the change in the price of musical instruments in Boston and asks for payment for the instruments Phelps purchased from him. In addition, Twining writ... More

Letter from Isaac Gleason Porter, New London, to Amos Augustus Phelps,...

In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Isaac Gleason Porter talks about his visit to New Haven and his experience teaching in school. He also relays some news about friends. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from William Twining, Andover, [Massachusetts], to Amos Augustu...

In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, William Twining discusses Phelps' music and returning Phelps' music books to him the following week. He also adds his request to "alter the title of the Society." Courtesy of B... More

Letter from William Smith Porter, Coosada Autauga co., to Amos Augustu...

In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, William Smith Porter informs Phelps about the school teachers’ salaries in the area (presumably Alabama), and says he will try to find a position for him if he is still interes... More

Letter from Israel Warburton Putnam, Portsmouth, to Amos Augustus Phel...

In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Israel W. Putnam says he has heard Phelps’s plan to go to teach in Berwick. Putnam asks Phelps to “make all convenient d[i]spatch in going to Berwick.” Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from Tobias Ostrander, Lyons, to Amos Augustus Phelps, Decr 6th...

In compliance to Amos A. Phelps’s request, Tobias Ostrander supplies information on Joseph Ennis. He says Ennis is not married, but has a group of illegitimate children. His social standing used to be good enou... More

Letter from Elizur Timothy Washburn, [Hartford, Connecticut], to Amos ...

Elizur Timothy Washburn writes to Amos A. Phelps about his previous letter. He mentions Phelps' change in religious sentiments and says "I have been here & have had many a dar hour in reflecting upon my religio... More

Letter from Elizur Timothy Washburn, Hatford, [Connecticut], to Amos A...

Elizur Timothy Washburn writes to Amos A. Phelps about his duties as a school teacher for the Deaf and Dumb in Hartford. He describes the conditions of religion in the surrounding towns, stating "There are revi... More

Letter from Parentha Bodwell, Simsbury, to Amos Augustus Phelps, March...

Amos A. Phelps’s cousin, Parentha Bodwell, writes to Phelps about their friend, Mary, who is involved with a man named Ennis, whom Bodwell considers to be of dubious character. In a segment added later, Bodwell... More

Letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Bradford [Mass.], to Sarah Ann Haggi...

Amos Augustus Phelps describes his journey from Andover to Bradford, and discusses personal matters. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from William P. Weeks, South Berwick, [Maine], to Amos Augustus...

William Weeks writes to Amos A. Phelps about slanderous remarks made by a Mrs. H and other members of Mr. Campbell's church. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from Elizabeth B. Gillet, Middlebury, to Amos Augustus Phelps, ...

In this letter, Elizabeth B. Gillet thanks Amos A. Phelps for his kind letter, and says she has not forgotten him during the long period of their non-communication. After telling him how she has been keeping tr... More

Letter from Clarissa Bodwell Phelps Tryon, Farmington, [Connecticut], ...

In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, his mother writes to him about money concerns.She urges him to come home. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from Joel Clough, Farmington, to Amos Augustus Phelps, April 26...

Joel Clough writes to Amos A. Phelps that he had an agreeable winter in the west, and that he plans to finish the stone work to the aqueduct as soon as August. On the same sheet of paper, Phelps's mother, Clari... More