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Habit of the black sultaness in 1749. Sultane noire.

Habit of the black sultaness in 1749. Sultane noire.

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John Ogilby - Gvinea. John Ogilby

John Ogilby - Gvinea. John Ogilby

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Afternoon drive in Rural Cuba. - Public domain dedication image

Afternoon drive in Rural Cuba. - Public domain dedication image

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Black Heritage from the Schomburg Collection

Black Heritage from the Schomburg Collection

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Vida de la venerable negra, la madre sor Theresa Juliana de Santo Domingo, de feliz memoria: religiosa profesa de la Tercera Orden de N.P.S. to Domingo en el religiosissimo convent de Dominicas, vulgo de La Penitencia, de la ciudad de Salamanca. Compuesta por un devoto de S. n. Vicente Ferrer, quien la dedica al mismo santo. Volume II

Vida de la venerable negra, la madre sor Theresa Juliana de Santo Domi...

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Guadeloupean woman. - Public domain portrait painting

Guadeloupean woman. - Public domain portrait painting

Digital ID: 418039. Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis) -- Photographer. [1911]. .Source: William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants (more info ( ...col_id=165 ) ). .Repository: The New York Public... More

Habit of the black sultaness in 1749. Sultane noire.

Habit of the black sultaness in 1749. Sultane noire.

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Native Jamaican Thatched Hut among the Cocoanut Palms and Banana Trees.

Native Jamaican Thatched Hut among the Cocoanut Palms and Banana Trees...

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Whereas it is found by experience, that traffique with infidels and barbarous nations not in amity with us

Whereas it is found by experience, that traffique with infidels and ba...

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Nègres scieurs de long. - Voyage pittoresque et historique au Bresil ou Sejour
Nègresses libres, vivant de leur travail; Nègresses marchandes, de sonhos, manoé, aloà.

Nègresses libres, vivant de leur travail; Nègresses marchandes, de son...

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Street scene, Barbados: throwing money.

Street scene, Barbados: throwing money.

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Answers to the objections against the proposals of the Royal African Company for settling the trade to Africa

Answers to the objections against the proposals of the Royal African C...

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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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Jeanne-Marie Goes to Market - Book for children

Jeanne-Marie Goes to Market - Book for children

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A Job for Jeremiah - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

A Job for Jeremiah - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

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Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

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Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

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A Job for Jeremiah - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

A Job for Jeremiah - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

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Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

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Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

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One way of carrying bananas : At the docks of the United Fruit Co., mechanical carriers, so perfected as not to bruise the fruit, have replaced the leisurely negro.

One way of carrying bananas : At the docks of the United Fruit Co., me...

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Dienstmeid Willemstad. - A black and white photo of a woman in a dress

Dienstmeid Willemstad. - A black and white photo of a woman in a dress

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Alkmey; Roi de la Guinée.
Negersklaven mit den Túmburah-orchester.

Negersklaven mit den Túmburah-orchester.

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[Santo Negro, portrait of San Beníto de Palermo, also known as St. Benedict the Moor.]

[Santo Negro, portrait of San Beníto de Palermo, also known as St. Ben...

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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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Observations sur l'origine et les progrès du préjugé des colons blancs contre les hommes de couleur; sur les inconvéniens de le perpétuer; la nécessité, la facilité de le détruire; sur le projet du Comité colonial, etc. Par M. Raymond, homme de couleur de Saint-Domingue.
Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

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A map of New England, New York, New Jersey and Pensilvania

A map of New England, New York, New Jersey and Pensilvania

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Plantation Inventory - Public domain document scan

Plantation Inventory - Public domain document scan

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Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

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Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

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Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

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Nègres cangueiros; Différentes nations nègres.

Nègres cangueiros; Différentes nations nègres.

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Market woman, Brazil. - Public domain portrait print

Market woman, Brazil. - Public domain portrait print

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The road to market : A typical highway of Jamaica, followed by natives going to Kingston.

The road to market : A typical highway of Jamaica, followed by natives...

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Studio portrait of Arthur Alfonso Schomburg as a young child in Puerto Rico, age 4

Studio portrait of Arthur Alfonso Schomburg as a young child in Puerto...

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Mending nets along the beach, St. Kitts.

Mending nets along the beach, St. Kitts.

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Observations sur l'origine et les progrès du préjugé des colons blancs contre les hommes de couleur; sur les inconvéniens de le perpétuer; la nécessité, la facilité de le détruire; sur le projet du Comité colonial, etc. Par M. Raymond, homme de couleur de Saint-Domingue.
Nègres chasseurs rentrant en ville [left]. Le retour des nègres d'un naturaliste [right].

Nègres chasseurs rentrant en ville [left]. Le retour des nègres d'un n...

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Brûlement de l'effigie du Juda, le samedi saint.
Maracas River, Trinidad.

Maracas River, Trinidad.

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Negroes at work in a Cuban sugar plantation.

Negroes at work in a Cuban sugar plantation.

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Passage d'un pont dans le Fouta.

Passage d'un pont dans le Fouta.

Picryl description: Public domain image from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, free to use, no copyright restrictions image. The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Har... More

Femmes sousous métissées de sang européen.

Femmes sousous métissées de sang européen.

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Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

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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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Jeanne-Marie Goes to Market - Book for children

Jeanne-Marie Goes to Market - Book for children

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Our Negro Brother. Book for children by Edith H. Mayer

Our Negro Brother. Book for children by Edith H. Mayer

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Our Negro Brother. Book for children by Edith H. Mayer

Our Negro Brother. Book for children by Edith H. Mayer

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Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

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John R. Archer, Mayor of Battersea

John R. Archer, Mayor of Battersea

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Arrest du conseil d'état du roi, qui ordonne que la gratification accordée au commerce pour la traite des nègres

Arrest du conseil d'état du roi, qui ordonne que la gratification acco...

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Negro huts, Barbados. - A black and white photo of a small village

Negro huts, Barbados. - A black and white photo of a small village

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Women selling provisions at Tortola Wharf, St. Thomas, V. I., Dec. 1941.

Women selling provisions at Tortola Wharf, St. Thomas, V. I., Dec. 194...

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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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Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

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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 Job for Jeremiah - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

A Job for Jeremiah - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

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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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A Job for Jeremiah - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

A Job for Jeremiah - Book for children by Eleanor Weakley Nolen

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Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

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Femmes Cabocles (sauvages civilisés) vivant du métier de blanchisseuses dans la ville de Rio Janeiro.

Femmes Cabocles (sauvages civilisés) vivant du métier de blanchisseuse...

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Kislar Aga, Chef des Eunuques noirs, Tjutjé, Nain, Ak Aga, Chef des Eunuques blanes

Kislar Aga, Chef des Eunuques noirs, Tjutjé, Nain, Ak Aga, Chef des Eu...

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In the Slave Market, Constantinople

In the Slave Market, Constantinople

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Negro anthology: 1931-1933

Negro anthology: 1931-1933

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Gathering sea eggs, Barbados. ; The wind-swept Mahogany trees, Barbados.

Gathering sea eggs, Barbados. ; The wind-swept Mahogany trees, Barbado...

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Chairman A. E. Silverwood.

Chairman A. E. Silverwood.

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Bill of sale for un Negro Bozal

Bill of sale for un Negro Bozal

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The case of the Royal African Company of England

The case of the Royal African Company of England

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The Market Delivery, Nassau, B. I.

The Market Delivery, Nassau, B. I.

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Jeanne-Marie Goes to Market - Book for children

Jeanne-Marie Goes to Market - Book for children

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Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

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Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

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Lynching of C.J. Miller, at Bardwell, Kentucky, July 7th, 1893

Lynching of C.J. Miller, at Bardwell, Kentucky, July 7th, 1893

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Le saint viatique porté chez un malade; Transport d'un enfant blanc, pour être baptisé à l'église.

Le saint viatique porté chez un malade; Transport d'un enfant blanc, p...

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Négresses allant à l'église, pour être baptisées; Chevaliers du Christ, en grand costume de l'ordre.

Négresses allant à l'église, pour être baptisées; Chevaliers du Christ...

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Boot Blacks. New York Sterecope Card.

Boot Blacks. New York Sterecope Card.

New York stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who ass... More

Les Barbiers Ambulants,  Boutique de Barbiers.

Les Barbiers Ambulants, Boutique de Barbiers.

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Petit moulin à sucre, portatif.

Petit moulin à sucre, portatif.

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The slavery prosecutions at Cairo.

The slavery prosecutions at Cairo.

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A Native Sugar Mill, Nassau, B. I.

A Native Sugar Mill, Nassau, B. I.

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Banana plantation, Trinidad.

Banana plantation, Trinidad.

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Brézil [Black flag bearer.] - A man in a uniform holding a flag

Brézil [Black flag bearer.] - A man in a uniform holding a flag

The collection by the Dutch physician H. J. Vinkhuijzen (1843-1910). 19th-century European military.

The Most Rev. Enos Nuttall, D.D.; Archbishop of the West Indies.

The Most Rev. Enos Nuttall, D.D.; Archbishop of the West Indies.

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Shipping sugar, Bridgetown; [Barbados].

Shipping sugar, Bridgetown; [Barbados].

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A Negro peasant returning from market, Jamaica.

A Negro peasant returning from market, Jamaica.

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Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

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Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

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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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Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

Negro Art, Music and Rhyme - Book for children

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Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

Kalena - Book for children by Esma Rideout Booth

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Three women from Guadeloupe. - Public domain dedication image

Three women from Guadeloupe. - Public domain dedication image

Digital ID: 1206544. Sherman, Augustus F. (Augustus Francis) -- Photographer. .Source: William Williams papers / Photographs of immigrants (more info ( ...col_id=165 ) ). .Repository: The New York Public Librar... More

Officers of London Branch; Miss Pearl Brown, Sec'y.

Officers of London Branch; Miss Pearl Brown, Sec'y.

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The war on mosquitoes III.

The war on mosquitoes III.

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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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Nègres, vendeurs de charbon. Vendeuses de pled (blé) de Turquie.
Feitors corrigeant des nègres; Camp nocturne de voyageurs.
L'alikhali Yélan-Fodé et sa famille.

L'alikhali Yélan-Fodé et sa famille.

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