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Group of escaped slaves that gathered on the former plantation of Confederate General Thomas Drayton. After Federal troops occupied the plantation...
Group of freed slaves gather on the plantation of Confederate general Thomas F. Drayton in Hilton Head, South Carolina, during the Union occupation...
Formerly enslaved people in Barbados march through the streets to the sound of cymbals, drum and concertina as they celebrate their emancipation....
The Union commander's notice of the Emancipation Proclamation to the citizens of Winchester, Virginia, with the wording 'Freedom to slaves! Whereas...
Group of freed slaves who worked as laborers and servants with the 13th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War, 1862.
Portrait of Civil War 'contrabands,' fugitive slaves who were emancipated upon reaching the North, sitting outside a house, possible in Freedman's...
African Americans stand outside a contraband school, or Freedman's Village, in Arlington, Virginia, ca. 1860s.
Coach filled with formerly enslaved people carrying the Emancipation Proclamation in triumph, circa 1863. The coach has copies of the proclamation,...
iconic anti-slavery image of slave in shackles (1875 illustration) - slavery freedom stock illustrations
Woodblock print from Slavery in South Carolina and the Ex-Slaves; or, the Port Royal Mission by Mrs. Austa M. French .
Manumission certificate for William Steward, mariner granted citizenship. Ship and dock scene, 1820-05-29. '...I, R. Milford Blatchford, a Public...
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Group of African Americans aboard the USS Vermont. The United States Navy employed thousands of freed slaves during the Civil War.
Emancipated Slaves Brought from Louisiana by Colonel George H. Banks, December 1863. Artist Myron H. Kimball.
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Emancipated slaves travelling north waving Lincoln's proclamation, United States of America, illustration from Il Giornale Illustrato, Year 2, No 33,...
After the Emancipation Proclamation was issued on January 1 freed slaves like this group made their way north, crossing the confederate lines at...
Old slaves find rest at government home near Washington. Old negro folk, who were slaves in the South before the Civil War being cared for by the...
Thomas Nast, American school. Celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves at the end of the American Civil War. Centre: A freedman's home....
Gordon, also known as "Whipped Peter", a former enslaved man, shows his scarred back at a medical examination, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2nd April...
old engraved illustration of american abolitionist. the riot at alton, illinois, on 7 november 1837, in which elijah lovejoy lost his life - slavery freedom stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images
monument marking the slavery revolt in 1795 at landhuis knip, curacao, caribbean - slavery freedom stock pictures, royalty-free photos & images
Illustration depicting freedmen voting in New Orleans, after being herded to the polls by carpetbaggers. Woodcut, dated 1867, from a series of...