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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".

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…

This is a photo of the Butler family.

Map of the Underground Railroad

An image showing how severely an enslaved person was flogged.

John Adams by Benjamin Blythe done in Salem in 1766

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

A painting of Thomas Jefferson