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Dec 4, 2019 · by Sabrina Imbler December 4, 2019. The daguerreotype within its original leather frame. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The image is simple and haunting. Ten enslaved African-American people...
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Feb 20, 2019 · Douglass is the most photographed man of the 19th century, having sat for more than 150 portraits [see page 25]. Recognizing the import of images, he took the opportunity as frequently as possible to document his own image as a dignified, self-determined black man. Left: Ambrotype of Frederick Douglass, 1855-1865.
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IN SLAVERY. PHOTOGRAPHS: 1847-1863 *. AFRICAN-BORN ENSLAVED MEN, named Renty and Fassena by their slaveholders, near Columbia, South Carolina, March 1850. Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University. 2. LUCY, HOLDING CHARLOTTE, A WHITE CHILD, ca. 1845. Kentucky Gateway Museum Center, Maysville, Kentucky / Library of Congress.
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December 6, 2019. An unknown photographer took this image of enslaved individuals on a cotton plantation around 1850. Gift of the Hall Family Foundation. In the mid-19th century, a Georgia...
The images in Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery before c. 1900. Our growing collection currently has over 1,200 images.
Feb 7, 2019 · Updated: August 9, 2023 | Original: February 7, 2019. copy page link. Print Page. Library of Congress. An escaped enslaved man named Peter showing his scarred back at a medical examination in...
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