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- Collection: To Be Sold: Virginia and the American Slave Trade
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Auction at Richmond
George Bourne declared that illustrations in his Picture of Slavery, first published in 1834, were accurate illustrations of slavery. A clergyman, Bourne became an abolitionist while serving a Presbyterian church in the Harrisonburg, Virginia, area.…
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Franklin & Armfield
John Armfield and employees guarding a coffle of enslaved men and women being marched southwest.
Fugitive Slave Law Convention, Cazenovia, New York
This image documents a convention held in Cazenovia, New York, to protest the Fugitive Slave Act, a bill that was being considered in Congress. An estimated 2,000 to 3,000 people attended the meeting, including a number of escaped slaves and the…
