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Exchanging citizens for horses.

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Some of my informants. - An old black and white photo of a man

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Levi Coffin. ; Calvin Fairbank.

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Cassius M. Clay as a student at Yale.

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Songsters of note. - A black and white photo of a young boy

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A cabin home. - images Black History Month

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Miss Harriet E. Giles; Miss Sophia P. Packard; Founders of Spelman Sem...

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Joshua Cockburn - Public domain portrait print

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Boyle county broadside, 1849.

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Songsters of note. - A group of men standing next to each other

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Making a hand. - A black and white photo of a man holding a bird

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Mississippi hoodo-doctors. - images Black History Month

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Kidnapping. - Public domain dedication image

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Main street, Ante-Bellum Lexington.

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Edward Stone's coffle gang.

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Office of Clay's True American, Lexington.

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UNIA Parade, organized in Harlem, 1920

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Torturing American citizens. - Public domain dedication image

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Possession by the spirit; [A Mississippi baptismal service.]

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Possession by the spirit; [A Mississippi baptismal service.]

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Sold to go South.

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Fayette county hemp field.

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Old slave with hand held hemp-brake.

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Crispus Attucks first martyr for America.

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Commissioner's sale in 1863.

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Ladies whipping girls. - Public domain dedication image

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Lewis county slaves sold on Cheapside.

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Wm. Edouard Scott; Artist and portrait painter, famous for his "Death ...

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Two volumes of folk-lore.

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A slave pen during wartime.

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Bond posted by C. M. Clay to emancipate six slaves.

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Portrait of Léon-Gontran Damas as a youth, about age nine, holding a b...

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A subject for Mission work. - images Black History Month

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Front cover of Opportunity: Journal of Negro Life, July 1926

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Old slave couple , Mercer county.

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Flogging American women. - Public domain dedication image

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A court day sale in Maysville.

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Tanning a boy. - Public domain dedication image

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Robert Wickliffe. ; Robert J.Breckinridge.

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Picture of slavery in the United States of America. [title page]

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Folks in the big house.

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Where Robards kept his "choice stock" of slaves.

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Negro traders' advertisements. - images Black History Month

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Lexington slave dealers' advertisements, 1859.

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James G. Birney. ; John G. Fee.

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Mississippi hoodo-doctors. - images Black History Month

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Slave auction on Cheapside, Lexington.

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Making a hand. - A black and white photo of a man standing in the wood...

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Douglass, the orator. - images Black History Month

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A Negro conjure-doctor. - images Black History Month

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Nutmeg, red flannel and silver.

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Some of my informants; [Note the "mojo" around the neck of the center ...

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Selling females by the pound. - Public domain dedication image

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Family amalgamation among the men-stealers.

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A slave plantation. - Public domain dedication image

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Auction at Richmond. - Public domain dedication image

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Two volumes of folk-lore.

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Folk beliefs of the southern Negro; By Newbell Niles Puckett, Ph.D.; A...

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Perry's "free papers."

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Slave handcuffs and leg irons. ; Tom's runaway notice.

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Emily runs away.

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Negro neighbors: bond and free; Lessons in history and humanity; By Ph...

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A woman exchanged for a ram and sheep.

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Kentucky's first anti-slavery tract.

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[African American female slave being separated from her children by sl...

UNIA Parade, organized in Harlem, 1920

Bill of sale for Kitty Lee.

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Buying for the New Orleans market.

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