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Contrabands escaping
Throughout the Civil War thousands of enslaved men, women, and children attained their freedom by seeking refuge with United States troops as they moved across Virginia. They were declared "contraband of war" in May 1861.
Regulations for the Government of Freedman's Village, Greene Heights, Arlington, Va.
In 1863, Elias M. Greene, chief quartermaster of the military department of Washington, D.C., established a community for some of the many freedpeople who escaped slavery during the Civil War. This broadside printed the regulations for the government…
Pay Roll of Slaves Employed by the Commonwealth of Virginia, for Coast, Harbor and River Defenses, on the Defensive Works at Gloucester Point in the Month of April 1861
This is the second page of an itemized list of the expenses that the state's engineer department incurred in renting slaves and horses to work on defensive works at Gloucester Point, on the north bank of the York River, in the month of April 1861.…
Slaves Waiting for Sale
Enslaved women, men, and children waiting to be sold at auction
"In the Richmond Slave Market"
Sketch of enslaved people in auction room
"Slaves Waiting for Sale, Virginia"
Sketch of enslaved people
Sketches in the Free and Slave States of America
Engravings to accompany article
"The Charleston Slave Market"
Engraving of slave auction
Sketches of African Americans
Engravings of African American men
"Richmond"
Engraving of Eighth Street