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Filter: Subject of Slavery
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A freed slave with a hoe in his left hand and his right hand on his hip. Caption at the top reads, "Massa can't have dis chile, dat's what's de matter." Ca... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A grinning African American man wears a tattered version of Uncle Sam's costume as he dances and sings. The caption below reads, "I'm glad I'm not in... |
| Date: | 1860 |
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| Description: | A slave is being whipped by a slave owner as he kneels and prays next to a bale of cotton labeled "COTTON" and "CSA." John Bull sits on the bale facing awa... |
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| Description: | Text of the Emancipation Proclamation by Abraham Lincoln. Includes a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the Cameron Mission, a home for rescued Asian (Chinese and Japanese) slaves in San Francisco. Some of the residents are posed in a group a... |
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| Description: | A hand-drawn map of a house labeled in both English and Chinese. Notes include escape routes. Two girls were kept here. |
| Date: | 04 04 1863 |
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| Description: | Illustration depicting a large group of people gathered in the yard of a house. Three woman stand on the porch steps, and men, women and children are gathe... |
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| Description: | Exterior view of the slave quarters at Monticello, built in 1772 by Thomas Jefferson. |
| Date: | 1910 |
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| Description: | View of the slave quarters at West Point Plantation. Copyright 1910 by Fleming & Bryant, Brunswick, GA. |
| Date: | 1864 |
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| Description: | A map of Wisconsin and Michigan showing the counties, named towns, cities and villages, and railroads. The opposite side includes a lists counties with pop... |
| Date: | 1854 |
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| Description: | Brightly-colored map exhaustively marks the townships, County Towns and villages of Wisconsin. It also shows rivers, canals, railroads, and plank roads. Ea... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Drawn seven years after Wisconsin entered statehood, this map shows the counties, cities, towns, rivers and lakes in the entire state. The map includes a c... |
| Date: | 1964 |
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| Description: | Three people stand outdoors near a truck acting out a group improvisation of a slave revolt. They were attending Freedom School during Freedom Summer at Pa... |
| Read the history of Pleasant Ridge, Wisconsin, a unique a community developed by formerly enslaved African American slaves in the mid-19th century. |
| Runaway Slave |
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| Biography of Joshua Glover, a former slave from St. Louis, Missouri who sought asylum in Racine, Wisconsin in 1852. |
| Fugitive Slave |
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| Biography of Caroline Quarlls, the first fugitive slave conducted through Wisconsin's underground railroad network to freedom. |
| Brief explanation Thomas Jefferson's descendants in Wisconsin. |
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