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The Declaration nearly included a sweeping attack on slavery. Here’s why it was cut—and what it reveals about the Founders.

Engraving depicting the shooting of Major Pitcairn at the Battle of Bunker Hill by free black man Peter Salem, public domain. Slavery is the great exception to the rule of liberty proclaimed in the ...

Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the early 17th century, she was captured by the Portuguese at age 8 and sold to ...

In 1857, an 18-year-old female slave, Lear Green, who had been repeatedly raped and forced into prostitution by her white owner, one James Noble, was surreptitiously placed in a wooden seaman’s chest ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The autobiography of Samuel Hall with a forward by friend Orville Elder. The book has 45 pages and is saddle-stitched with a paper cover. The ...

John Reeves | Author, Soldier of Destiny: Slavery, Secession and the Redemption of Ulysses S. Grant At the beginning of the Civil War, Ulysses S. Grant wasn’t an abolitionist, admitting that his ...

There’s a traditional narrative about the history of Black people and the law. It describes how slaves were entirely shut out of the legal system, disenfranchised and bereft of even a modicum of legal ...

Calls to attenuate the brutality of slavery in museum depictions is absurd when our institutions already downplay one of its most horrific features. Broadside advertising a slave auction outside of ...

Click to open image viewer. IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. A first ...