Slavery

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The Enslaved - what they endured
Map of the African Slave Trade
25 Little Known Slavery Facts That’ll Make You Emotional - Fact Republic
25 Little Known Slavery Facts That’ll Make You Emotional | Fact Republic
21 Facts About African-American Slave Narratives
Women's Slave Narratives
Stunning pictures of men and women who were born into slavery and photographed more than seventy years after being freed
Unknown II. Portraits of Ex-Slaves 1930's
A rare photograph of a group of women sitting on piles of cotton with two white male overseers. Entitled "Freedom on the Plantation" circa 1863-1866. Robin Stanford Collection, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University.
Alexandria, Virginia. Slave pen. Interior view. It was taken between 1861 and 1865.
This Day in Black History: Oct. 1, 1851
October 1,1851 William “Jerry” Henry, a runaway slave and craftsman who had settled in Syracuse, New York, was arrested by a United States Marshal and scheduled to be returned to slavery. Ten thousand Black and White abolitionists of the city stormed the sheriff’s office and courthouse, free Henry, and aid his escape to Canada via the Underground Railroad.
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Door Of No Return, Slave Castle, Cape Coast, Ghana. Recently a DOOR OF RETURN has been added. This signifies the return of the slaves descendents to Ghana to acknowledge the history of their ancestors and each year Ghana celebrates Emancipation Day which welcomes the people from the Diaspora back to their homeland.
Biography of Angelina Grimké, American Abolitionist
1850 Anti-Slavery Meeting
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Cudjo Lewis (1841–1935) is considered the last survivor of the last slave ship to enter the United States. He was born around 1841 to a Yoruba family in the Banté region of Dahomey (today Benin).