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Educational and professional. Shivery family papers

Educational and professional. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Educational and professional. Shivery family papers

Educational and professional. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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A Specimen of Accompts in the Sugar Colonies

A Specimen of Accompts in the Sugar Colonies

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Indenture agreement between Benjamin Gibbs and his former slave George, in Philadelphia. The fourteen-year-old is indentured for a period of fourteen years. An agreement of November 1813 on the back of the document transfers the unexpired term of indenture to Dr. Samuel McCrosky.

Indenture agreement between Benjamin Gibbs and his former slave George...

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Silver slave brand, c. 1800 - Public domain dedication image
Female in chains kneeling on the ground in a plantation

Female in chains kneeling on the ground in a plantation

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White Rose Industrial Association Working Girls' Home

White Rose Industrial Association Working Girls' Home

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William Still; The underground railroad.

William Still; The underground railroad.

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Mr. Samuel Berry, father of Amanda Smith.

Mr. Samuel Berry, father of Amanda Smith.

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"... But I did not want to go, and jump'd out of the window. "

"... But I did not want to go, and jump'd out of the window. "

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African slave traffic - Public domain dedication image
The lash. (see page 203) - Public domain dedication image
Certificate of Black Star Line stock
Plantation ; Cotton picking - Public domain dedication image

Plantation ; Cotton picking - Public domain dedication image

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A black family being separated - Public domain dedication image

A black family being separated - Public domain dedication image

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Death of Romulus Hall. - Public domain dedication image

Death of Romulus Hall. - Public domain dedication image

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Plantation life - Brazil - Public domain dedication image

Plantation life - Brazil - Public domain dedication image

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Clarissa M. Thompson. Novelist, Educator, W.C.T.U. [Woman's Christian Temperance Union] Advocate, Poetess.

Clarissa M. Thompson. Novelist, Educator, W.C.T.U. [Woman's Christian ...

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Berilla, An Edjow Galla - Public domain portrait engraving

Berilla, An Edjow Galla - Public domain portrait engraving

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Plantation scene ; coffee - Public domain dedication image

Plantation scene ; coffee - Public domain dedication image

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Country Huts and Highways, Porto Rico.

Country Huts and Highways, Porto Rico.

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A State Funeral, San Juan, Porto Rico.

A State Funeral, San Juan, Porto Rico.

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Chart of the world, on Mercator's Projection. Illustrative of the Impolicy of Slavery.
Porte Bab-Azoun A Alger - Public domain dedication image

Porte Bab-Azoun A Alger - Public domain dedication image

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Drowning - Public domain dedication image

Drowning - Public domain dedication image

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Jamaica - West Indies - Public domain dedication image

Jamaica - West Indies - Public domain dedication image

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Gen. Robert Smalls, Collector or Customs...
Hon. J.R. Lynch, Paymaster in the Army.

Hon. J.R. Lynch, Paymaster in the Army.

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Femme de Maroc - Public domain dedication image
The mayor and police of Norfolk searching Captain Fountain's schooner; Twenty-eight fugitives were concealed in this vessel.

The mayor and police of Norfolk searching Captain Fountain's schooner;...

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What has the North to do with slavery ?
Amanda Smith - Public domain dedication image

Amanda Smith - Public domain dedication image

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Miss Ednorah Nahar - Public domain portrait print

Miss Ednorah Nahar - Public domain portrait print

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Pyramids of Nouri - Public domain dedication image

Pyramids of Nouri - Public domain dedication image

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Mrs. Della Irving Hayden - Public domain portrait painting

Mrs. Della Irving Hayden - Public domain portrait painting

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Inside of a Bushman's Hut, african travels
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.
Eminent anti-slavery men; Rev. William H. Furness.
Carrie L. Griffin, Dayton, Ohio.

Carrie L. Griffin, Dayton, Ohio.

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Mrs. M. E. C. Smith [recto]. - Public domain portrait painting, book by Booker T. Washington
Harlem, Mecca of the new Negro. [cover]

Harlem, Mecca of the new Negro. [cover]

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Prof. W. S. Scarborough - Public domain dedication image, book by Booker T. Washington

Prof. W. S. Scarborough - Public domain dedication image, book by Book...

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Figures of Algerine Women. - Public domain dedication image

Figures of Algerine Women. - Public domain dedication image

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“The Comedy of Pigmeat Markham”

“The Comedy of Pigmeat Markham”

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Can a mother forget her suckling child? ; The tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.

Can a mother forget her suckling child? ; The tender mercies of the wi...

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Bird-nesting, Vol. II No. VII - Book for children

Bird-nesting, Vol. II No. VII - Book for children

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Florence Mills

Florence Mills

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“National Negro Baseball League”

“National Negro Baseball League”

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Substance of the speech of the Right Honourable Lord Grenville, in the House of Lords, on Monday, June 27, 1814, in moving for certain papers relative to the revival of the slave trade

Substance of the speech of the Right Honourable Lord Grenville, in the...

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The Savannah State College Bulletin: Homecoming Edition, Vol. 8, No. 2
Southern horrors : lynch law in all its phases
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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Smith, Josephine Blaze, 1876-1913. Shivery family papers

Smith, Josephine Blaze, 1876-1913. Shivery family papers

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Les Liliacees: Passage de la Riviere Des Elephants

Les Liliacees: Passage de la Riviere Des Elephants

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Costume des Barabrael, Voyage a meroe au fleuve blanc au dela de fazoql

Costume des Barabrael, Voyage a meroe au fleuve blanc au dela de fazoq...

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Eesah Somauli, highlands of Ethiopia

Eesah Somauli, highlands of Ethiopia

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The Military Expedition, highlands of Ethiopia

The Military Expedition, highlands of Ethiopia

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Danakil Braves, highlands of Ethiopia

Danakil Braves, highlands of Ethiopia

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Wm. Wells Brown - Public domain portrait engraving

Wm. Wells Brown - Public domain portrait engraving

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Nat Turner & his confederates in conference

Nat Turner & his confederates in conference

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Josiah Henson. - Public domain portrait engraving

Josiah Henson. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Jag Kastade mig ned pa jorden och kysste den." (sid. 95)
Dr. James McCune Smith. - Public domain portrait engraving

Dr. James McCune Smith. - Public domain portrait engraving

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Grand march resurrection, [Front cover]

Grand march resurrection, [Front cover]

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Flyer announcing a Youth Leadership Meeting, to be held at Shaw University, Raleigh, North Carolina, on April 15-17, 1960, and bearing the names of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ella J. Baker, the president and executive director, respectively, of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

Flyer announcing a Youth Leadership Meeting, to be held at Shaw Univer...

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A Hottentot Man & Woman.

A Hottentot Man & Woman.

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Man & Woman of Cazegut.

Man & Woman of Cazegut.

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The Independent Republic of Liberia : its constitution and declaration of independence : address of the colonists to the free people of color in the United States, with other documents; issued chiefly for the use of the free people of color
Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Educational and professional. Shivery family papers
Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers

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Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers
Gospel Service Songs. Shivery family papers
Educational and professional. Shivery family papers
Vue d'une Indigoterie. - Public domain dedication image

Vue d'une Indigoterie. - Public domain dedication image

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Pickets of the First Louisiana 'Native Guards' guarding the New Orleans, Opelousas and Great Western Railroad. - From a sketch by our special artist." [Cover page].
National Civil Commission of the Republic, Étienne Polverel & Léger-Félicité Sonthonax

National Civil Commission of the Republic, Étienne Polverel & Léger-Fé...

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The King's district of the City of Kurreechane, in the Marootzee Country

The King's district of the City of Kurreechane, in the Marootzee Count...

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Havana - Public domain dedication image

Havana - Public domain dedication image

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Léger-Félicité Sonthonax to Pascal. Haiti

Léger-Félicité Sonthonax to Pascal. Haiti

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Left by slave traders to their fate

Left by slave traders to their fate

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Lewis Tappan - Public domain portrait engraving

Lewis Tappan - Public domain portrait engraving

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Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's house, in which she wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin."

Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe's house, in which she wrote "Uncle Tom's Ca...

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Mrs. Mary B. Talbert [recto]. - Public domain portrait print, book by Booker T. Washington

Mrs. Mary B. Talbert [recto]. - Public domain portrait print, book by ...

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Statistics of population.  General statistics of the Negro population of the United States, by counties: 1910.  (counties in which no Negroes were reported are omitted.)

Statistics of population. General statistics of the Negro population ...

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Torturing American citizens. - Public domain dedication image

Torturing American citizens. - Public domain dedication image

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Dress worn by females at the annual circumcision feast at Lattakoo.  The Rainmaker's Wife at Kurreechane.

Dress worn by females at the annual circumcision feast at Lattakoo. T...

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Obelisk at Axum - Public domain dedication image

Obelisk at Axum - Public domain dedication image

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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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St. Helena - Public domain dedication image

St. Helena - Public domain dedication image

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Teacher's Tennis Club. - Public domain dedication image

Teacher's Tennis Club. - Public domain dedication image

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Domestic Science class. - Public domain dedication image

Domestic Science class. - Public domain dedication image

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A black man being physically restrained and whipped by two white men on horseback

A black man being physically restrained and whipped by two white men o...

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