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- Collection: To Be Sold: Virginia and the American Slave Trade
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Plan of an African Ship's lower Desk
This diagram of the slave ship “Brooks,” first published in 1788, became the most widely known and influential image used by abolitionist campaigners. It was redrawn and republished many times in Britain and America in the decades that followed. It…
Am I Not a Man and a Brother?
Illustration of African in chains
Slave Market of America
Text and engravings of slave trade in District of Columbia and northern Virginia
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…
American Anti-Slavery Almanac
Each year the American Anti-Slavery Society published an almanac containing poems, abolitionist tracts, and, beginning in 1838, drawings. As Angelina Grimké noted, "Until the pictures of the slave's sufferings were drawn and held up to the public…