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Southern Planter: "Pomp, you Rascal! do you see any of those cursed Yankee ships coming this way?"

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This print is a dramatized display of slave master and slave interactions in a southern plantation home.

Monument of King Behanzin

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A monument of king Behanzin of the Kingdom of Dahomey in the city of Abomey. Says "I will never accept to sign any treaty making us susceptible by alienating the independence of the ancestor’s land".

Captain Robert Mitchell

This volume contains information regarding a voyage of the ship Fox, a 146 ton brigantine that left Liverpool on March 8, 1774. The ship stopped first in the Cameroons, West Africa, where 148 African people were enslaved and brought aboard. The ship…

The Butler Family

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This is a photo of the Butler family.

Underground railroad map of the United States

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Map of the Underground Railroad

Man with lacerations from flogging while a slave

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An image showing how severely an enslaved person was flogged.

John Adams

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John Adams by Benjamin Blythe done in Salem in 1766

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Declaration of Independence

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The declaration of independence by the thirteen colonies of the British Empire that would become the United States

Portrait of Thomas Jefferson

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A painting of Thomas Jefferson