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Cuneiform tablet: agreement regarding disposition of slaves, Egibi arc...

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Cuneiform tablet: agreement regarding disposition of slaves, Egibi arc...

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Slaves of Pharoah from BL Add 14762, f. 7

Decorated initial at the beginning of ~Avadim hayyinu~ (we were slaves of Pharaoh), and a miniature of the Israelites building a city for Pharaoh in the lower margin. Image taken from f. 7 of Haggadah for Passo... More

'We were slaves' from BL Add 14761, f. 30v

Historiated initial-word panel with gold letters: ~Avadim~ at the beginning of the passage, 'We were slaves to Pharaoh'. Beneath the initial word, the Israelites build a tower under the supervision of a task ma... More

Slaves of Pharoah from BL Add 14762, f. 7

Detail of a decorated initial at the beginning of ~Avadim hayyinu~ (we were slaves of Pharaoh), and a miniature of the Israelites building a city for Pharaoh in the lower margin. Image taken from f. 7 of Haggad... More

The necessity forced the nations to adopt cruel laws and commands as f...

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'We were slaves' from BL Add 26957, f. 39v

Marginal drawing illustrating the passage, ~Avadim hayyinu~ (we were slaves): a man carrying buckets and followed by a dog. Caption in a banderole over the scene: ~Avadim hayyinu~. Image taken from f. 39v of Pr... More

'We were slaves' from BL Add 26957, f. 39v

Textual illustration of ~Avadim hayyinu~ (We were slaves): a man carrying buckets and followed by a dog. Caption in a banderole over the scene: ~Avadim hayyinu~. Below, there is a decorated initial-word panel ~... More

Studies for a Sculpture with Figures of Prudence, Industry and Economy...

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The Triumph of Scipio who rides on a horse followed by captured slaves

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The story of Joseph. Joseph sold to the Ishmaelites.

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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

Plate 4: Civilis tells the Dutch Elders that They are Being Treated Li...

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A ship disembarking to left, two galley slaves stand and one sits next...

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Dutch Merchant with Slaves in a West Indies Hills

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Studies for a Sculpture with Figures of Prudence, Industry and Economy...

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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 number of people in the Province of New York, A.D. 1...

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Receipt to Robert Sharpe for purchase of Negro girl

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Receipt to Robert Sharpe for purchase of Negro girl

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Femmes d' Afrique, en differens Habits. 1. Femmes de qualite, 2. femme...

Print shows three groups of African women wearing the dress of upper class and lower class women, and a female slave with two children. Printed at bottom right: T. IV. No. XXIV. Trimmed to within the plate mar... More

Asia! Thy trade, thy silks and spicy stores, But ill compensate for a ...

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Design for a Decorated Console with Two Slaves on Top of an Eagle

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Bill of sale for a slave - Brookline public library manuscript collect...

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Bill of sale for a slave - Brookline public library manuscript collect...

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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

To the inhabitants of the City and County of Philadelphia. Gentlemen. ...

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 143, Folder 14.

Appraisal of Property -- Samuel Turner Estate. [Appraisal of slaves fr...

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Virginia Colony to George III of England, April 1, 1772, Petition Agai...

Petition Against Importation of Slaves from Africa

Appointment of Commissioners of Oyer and Terminer

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Day book and ledger containing a record of cloth given to the slaves o...

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Invoice of tax levy on Edmund Ly[ne's] property

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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

Circular. State of Connecticut, Hartford, September 18th, 1798. We enc...

The name of Robert Geer, name and number of the district, filled in in manuscript.; Not in Evans. Page Order: Folder Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page image... More

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.

[Slaves exposed for sale] - A group of men standing next to each other

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

[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

Order rescinding a court decision setting aside Edmund Lyne's will

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Virginia General Assembly, January 22, 1805, Resolution on Slaves

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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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[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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An oration commemorative of the abolition of the slave trade in the Un...

Evaluation and apportionment of the slaves of Jacob Geiger's estate

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A tid rei, for tories. Free men attend to what your friend a Republica...

Imprint 2. 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 113, Folder 32. Copy... More

An act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place wi...

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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Certificate by City and County of New York for Peter Seaman, dated Apr...

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.

Aprais [Appraisal]; Bill of the Estate of John Epperson.

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Aprais [Appraisal]; Bill of the Estate of John Epperson.

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List of taxable property, Woodford County, Kentucky

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[Manumission certificate for William Steward, mariner granted citizens...

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Official Decree Issued in Mendoza, Argentina

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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

[Illustration showing two Brazilian slaves in Bahia carrying cloth cov...

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, Orme, Brown, and Green and J. Murray, 1824, p. 133. Possib... More

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

Florence and Andrew Johnson Stover, Andrew Johnson National Historic S...

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Dolly with Andrew Johnson Stover, Andrew Johnson National Historic Sit...

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Black Society of the Tauza Nation, Argentina

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Letter from Francis Wayland, Providence, [Rhode Island], to William Ll...

In this typed copy of a letter to William Lloyd Garrison, Francis Wayland explains his reasons for requesting Garrison stop sending him the Liberator. Wayland states that while he "believe[s] as strongly as any... More

Slave trade, Sierra Leone :: return to an address to His Majesty, date...

Letter from F.A. Kingsbury to Mary Weston

F.A. Kingsbury writes to Mary Weston a printed petition on abolishing slavery in Washington, D.C. The petition is incomplete. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from F.A. Kingsbury to Mary Weston

F.A. Kingsbury writes to Mary Weston a printed petition on abolishing slavery in Washington, D.C. The petition is incomplete. Courtesy of Boston Public Library

Letter from Henry Egbert Benson, Providence, [Rhode Island], to Willia...

Henry Egbert Benson writes to William Lloyd Garrison sending him money to pay for 8 subscriptions to the Liberator and 3 to the Abolitionist. Benson then mentions a "long letter from Friend [Arnold] Buffum .. r... More

Letter from James Cropper, Liverpool, [England], to William Lloyd Garr...

James Cropper writes to William Lloyd Garrison after receiving a bound volume of the Liberator for 1833 and telling him that he had subscribed through Joseph Sturge to receive the Liberator regularly. He then p... More

Le collier de fer, châtiment des fugitifs ; Nègres en commission, par ...

Illustrations showing black fugitives wearing iron collars as punishment, two blacks wearing rain garments, and two slaves carrying tiles on their heads. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, d... More

Letter from James Cropper, Liverpool, [England], to William Lloyd Garr...

James Cropper writes to William Lloyd Garrison after receiving a bound volume of the Liberator for 1833 and telling him that he had subscribed through Joseph Sturge to receive the Liberator regularly. He then p... More

Family amalgamation among the men-stealers

African American children serving food to a white family. Illus. in: Picture of slavery in the United States of America / George Bourne. Middletown, Conn. : E. Hunt, 1834, p. 91. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-2.

Letter from James Cropper, Liverpool, [England], to William Lloyd Garr...

James Cropper writes to William Lloyd Garrison after receiving a bound volume of the Liberator for 1833 and telling him that he had subscribed through Joseph Sturge to receive the Liberator regularly. He then p... More

Letter from James Cropper, Liverpool, [England], to William Lloyd Garr...

James Cropper writes to William Lloyd Garrison after receiving a bound volume of the Liberator for 1833 and telling him that he had subscribed through Joseph Sturge to receive the Liberator regularly. He then p... More

Boutique de la rue du Val-Longo / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. de Thierr...

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Letter from James Cropper, Liverpool, [England], to William Lloyd Garr...

James Cropper writes to William Lloyd Garrison after receiving a bound volume of the Liberator for 1833 and telling him that he had subscribed through Joseph Sturge to receive the Liberator regularly. He then p... More

Esclaves nègres, de différentes nations / J.B. Debret, delt. ; lith. d...

Illustration showing faces of black women slaves from various tribes reflecting different styles of dress and adornment. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, depuis 1816 jusqu'en 1831 ... / pa... More

Letter from Thomas Foxwell Buxton, London, [England], to William Lloyd...

Thomas Fowell Buxton writes to William Lloyd Garrison thaking him for the letter introducing him to Robert Purvis and saying that while he only was able "to see him for a few moments," Purvis offered to bring t... More

Letter from James Cropper, Liverpool, [England], to William Lloyd Garr...

James Cropper writes to William Lloyd Garrison after receiving a bound volume of the Liberator for 1833 and telling him that he had subscribed through Joseph Sturge to receive the Liberator regularly. He then p... More

Abduhl Rahhahman / H. Inman, Esqr, N.A., del. ; T. Illman, sculp.

Portrait of a West African prince known as Ibrahima, Prince of Slaves, and Abdu-l-Rahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori. He was captured as a war prisoner and became a slave in the United States for 40 years. He was freed in... More

Ladies whipping girls. Book illustration from Library of Congress

A white woman whipping a slave girl. Illus. in: Picture of slavery in the United States of America / George Bourne. Middletown, Conn. : E. Hunt, 1834, p. 109. Reference copy in: LOT 4422-A-3.

Marchand de tabac ; L'aveugle chanteur ; Marchande de pandelos / J.B. ...

Illustrations showing men in chains (possibly fugitives or slaves) outside a tobacco shop; blind street singer; woman vendor selling food to men. Illus. in: Voyage pittoresque et historique au Brésil, depuis 18... More

Letter from James Cropper, Liverpool, [England], to William Lloyd Garr...

James Cropper writes to William Lloyd Garrison after receiving a bound volume of the Liberator for 1833 and telling him that he had subscribed through Joseph Sturge to receive the Liberator regularly. He then p... More

Letter from James Cropper, Liverpool, [England], to William Lloyd Garr...

James Cropper writes to William Lloyd Garrison after receiving a bound volume of the Liberator for 1833 and telling him that he had subscribed through Joseph Sturge to receive the Liberator regularly. He then p... More

The battle at Bunker's Hill near Boston. June 17, 1775 / John Trumbull...

Print shows British and American soldiers in hand-to-hand combat during the Battle of Bunker Hill; among the soldiers depicted are Major General Joseph Warren, Captain Thomas Gardner, Major Andrew McClary, Colo... More

Letter from Sophia Davenport, St. Louis, [Missouri], to Caroline Westo...

Sophia Davenport writes to Caroline Weston in regards to her journey to St. Louis. She discussed slavery with James Clark and his mother, who visited the south and believes "after she had been there a short tim... More

Letter from Ellis Gray Loring, Boston, [Massachusetts], to William Llo...

Ellis Gray Loring writes to William Lloyd Garrison "in behalf of Susan Cabot, a sister of our friend Mrs. Follen, & a firm supporter of the abolition faith." Loring asks Garrison to write a letter of introducti... More

map from "A Voyage to Barbary, for the Redemption of Captives; perform...

This image has been taken from scan 000018 from "A Voyage to Barbary, for the Redemption of Captives; performed, in 1720, by the Mathurin-Trinitarian Fathers, Fran, Comelin, Philemon de la Motte, and Jos. Berna... More

map from "A Voyage to Barbary, for the Redemption of Captives; perform...

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Letter from James F. Otis, Portland, [Maine], to William Lloyd Garriso...

James Frederick Otis writes to William Lloyd Garrison asking for "the best arguments against the payment, remunerative compensation of slaveholders, in care of abolition. Where is what you have written & said o... More

Cash! All persons that have slaves to dispose of, will do well by givi...

Slaves- Sale. 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 186, Folder 27.

arches from "A Voyage to Barbary, for the Redemption of Captives; perf...

This image has been taken from scan 000158 from "A Voyage to Barbary, for the Redemption of Captives; performed, in 1720, by the Mathurin-Trinitarian Fathers, Fran, Comelin, Philemon de la Motte, and Jos. Berna... More