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A sketch from God's description of the " Consequences of Emancipation." Isa.58

A sketch from God's description of the " Consequences of Emancipation....

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The separation of a family of slaves after being seized & sold upon a warrant of destraint for their masters debts. As described in Bickells "West Indies as they are," page 16&17.

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Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America for the suppression of the African slave trade

Treaty between Her Majesty and the United States of America for the su...

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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The purchaser of the husband has sent to have him dragged away. As he does not wish for the 'balance' of the family, they have been taken by different purchasers.

The purchaser of the husband has sent to have him dragged away. As he ...

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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The mode of flogging slaves. As described in Bickells "West Indies as they are," page 13

The mode of flogging slaves. As described in Bickells "West Indies as ...

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Slaves chained together by the neck and driven to work on the roads. See Bickells "West Indies as they are," page 15

Slaves chained together by the neck and driven to work on the roads. S...

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Free labor and slave labor. Great race between the North and the South.
Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Barbarous mode of punishing a slave with the paddle
Mode of whipping - Public domain dedication image

Mode of whipping - Public domain dedication image

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The way they " catch men " in Pennsylvania.

The way they " catch men " in Pennsylvania.

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Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

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Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

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Plan of a settlement to be made near Sierra Leona, on the Grain Coast of Africa: Intended more particularly for the service and happy establishment of blacks and people of colour, to be shipped as freemen under the direction of the Committee for Relieving the Black Poor, and under the protection of the British government

Plan of a settlement to be made near Sierra Leona, on the Grain Coast ...

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Emancipated slaves can take care of themselves.
A letter to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas: on his speech, delivered in the House of Commons, on the twenty-sixth day of February, 1795, on Mr. Wilberforce's motion, for the abolition of the slave trade

A letter to the Right Hon. Henry Dundas: on his speech, delivered in t...

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

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A short sketch of the evidence delivered before a Committee of the House of Commons: for the abolition of the slave trade; to which is added a recommendation of the subject to the serious attention of people in general
Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Female in chains kneeling on the ground in a plantation

Female in chains kneeling on the ground in a plantation

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Death of Romulus Hall. - Public domain dedication image

Death of Romulus Hall. - Public domain dedication image

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Chart of the world, on Mercator's Projection. Illustrative of the Impolicy of Slavery.
What has the North to do with slavery ?
Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Papers presented to the House of Commons, respecting the slave trade

Papers presented to the House of Commons, respecting the slave trade

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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The driver's whip unfolds its torturing coil. "She only sulks go lash her to her toil."
Our peculiar domestic institutions.
The slavery prosecutions at Cairo.

The slavery prosecutions at Cairo.

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Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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A printing press demolished at slavery's bidding.
Selling a mother from her child.

Selling a mother from her child.

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Fourth of July.
Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Arrival from Maryland, 1859; Ann Maria Jackson and her seven children.

Arrival from Maryland, 1859; Ann Maria Jackson and her seven children.

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'Old Kentuck' setting on his dogs.

'Old Kentuck' setting on his dogs.

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Slaves exposed for sale. See Bickells "West Indies as they are," page 19

Slaves exposed for sale. See Bickells "West Indies as they are," page ...

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Husbands, wives, and families sold indiscriminately to different purchasers, are violently separated ; probably never to meet again

Husbands, wives, and families sold indiscriminately to different purch...

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Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

Two letters from Granville Sharp to Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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The friends of humanity laying the axe to the upas tree of slavery, which is ever loaded with the sum of all villanies
Plan of a settlement to be made near Sierra Leona, on the Grain Coast of Africa: Intended more particularly for the service and happy establishment of blacks and people of colour, to be shipped as freemen under the direction of the Committee for Relieving the Black Poor, and under the protection of the British government

Plan of a settlement to be made near Sierra Leona, on the Grain Coast ...

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

Forever Free: the story of the Emancipation Proclamation

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus...

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus...

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A narrative of the life of John Marrant, of New-York, in North-America: giving an account of his conversion when only fourteen years of age : he left his mother's house from religious motives, wander'd several days in the desart without food, and was at last taken by an Indian hunter among the Cherokees, where he was condemned to die : with his conversion of the king of the Cherokees and his daughter, &c. &c. &c. : the whole authenticated by the Reverend W. Aldridge

A narrative of the life of John Marrant, of New-York, in North-America...

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus...

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A narrative of the life of John Marrant, of New-York, in North-America: giving an account of his conversion when only fourteen years of age : he left his mother's house from religious motives, wander'd several days in the desart without food, and was at last taken by an Indian hunter among the Cherokees, where he was condemned to die : with his conversion of the king of the Cherokees and his daughter, &c. &c. &c. : the whole authenticated by the Reverend W. Aldridge

A narrative of the life of John Marrant, of New-York, in North-America...

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus...

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

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The interesting narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano: or, Gustavus Vassa, the African

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