African American Gallery

EVCW2A-00145

Black regiment of the Union army entering Richmond, Virginia, after its own citizens burned ithe city, April 3, 1865, near the end of the Civil War.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Senator Blanche K. Bruce

Blanche K. Bruce, first African-American to serve a full term as US Senator.
Digitally colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Plantation slaves singing and clapping

Group of slaves singing on a southern plantation, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration based on a Boston teacher's description

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