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“As much land as they can handle”
“Carried Thence for Trafficke of the West Indies Five Hundred Negroes”
“They That Are Born There Talk Good English”
“Fire, Fire, Scorch, Scorch”
A Quaker Abolitionist Travels Through Maryland and Virginia
“Is It Not Enough that We Are Torn From Our Country and Friends?”
“To Redeem My Family”
White Slaveowners Fear that the Haitian Revolution Has Arrived
“It Was a Mournful Scene Indeed”
In the Richmond Slave Market
“T’was My Object to Carry Terror and Devastation Wherever We Went”
“The Happiest Laboring Class in the World”
“Time Did Not Reconcile Me To My Chains”
“I Subscribe Myself a Friend to the Oppressed “
“We Was Jus’ Turned Out Like a Lot of Cattle”
John P. Parker, Conductor, on the Underground Railroad
Dressmaker and Former Slave Elizabeth
IMAGES:
Unveiled
“The old plantation home”
Freedom or Death
The Nat Turner Rebellion
Slaves for Sale
“Family amalgamation among the man-stealers”
Strange Cargo
“A Bold Stroke for Freedom”
A Map of Servitude
“Five generations on Smith’s plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina” |