Free Black Collection

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Quill pen in the hand of the Phyllis Wheatley statue, Boston Womens Memorial. Digital photograph

Frederick Douglass portrait. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Benjamin Banneker. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut reproduction of an earlier portrait, digitally retouched

Cotton wharf in Charleston SC, 1870s
Black stevedores loading bales on the cotton wharf in Charleston, South Carolina, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Freed slaves wedding dance in a cabin, US South, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Harriet Tubman, the " Moses of her people." Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century photograph

Underground Railroad account by William Still
Title page of William Stills record of the Underground Railroad, published in 1872. Woodcut with a watercolor wash

Cartoon about literacy tests in the South, 1870s
" The blakman orter be eddikated afore he kin vote with us wites" - cartoon about literacy tests, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Thomas Nast cartoon

Wedding of former slaves in the South, 1870s
Freed African-American couple getting married in a cabin during Reconstruction. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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

Funeral of a former black slave, Reconstruction Era
Negro funeral in Virginia, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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African-American boy reading to his family of former slaves, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Freed slaves escaping after the Emancipation Proclamation
Freed Negroes coming into the Union lines at Newbern NC, after the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Black stevedores in St. Louis, Missouri, 1890s
African-American roustabouts on the levee, St. Louis, Missouri, 1890s. Albertype reproduction of a photograph

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George Washington as a surveyor in Virginia. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

Blacks crushed by prejudice and violence after emancipation
Immigrant, a southerner, and a businessman combine to declare the US to be " a white mans government, " 1868. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Thomas Nast cartoon

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African-American woman reenactor in a sewing circle at Yorktown, Virginia. Digital photograph

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African-American outdoor prayer meeting in the South, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Skidmore Guard reunion in New York City, 1870s
Ball of the Skidmore Guard, a black military organization, NYC, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Emancipation Proclamation explained to former slaves in Louisiana
US Army officer meeting with African-Americans in Louisiana after the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Voting rights cut away from a black Sampson, 1868
Southern Delilah cutting voting rights from a black Samson, 1868. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Thomas Nast cartoon

Blacks in South Carolina legislature under Reconstruction
Reconstructed South Carolina legislature, including African-American delegates, passing an appropriations bill, 1873. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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African-American woman reenactor sewing at Yorktown battlefield, Virginia. Digital photograph

Black voters in Richmond, Virginia, 1871
African-American citizens voting in Richmond, Virginia, 1871. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

First black voters in Washington DC, 1867
African-American election official supervising the first black voters in Washington DC, 1867. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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African-American man collecting pay for cotton delivered in Austin, Texas, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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African-American workers collecting pay after harvesting strawberries in Virginia during Reconstruction. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Freed African-Americans traveling through St Louis, leaving the South after the Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Visiting pastor having dinner with an African-American family, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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African-American church congregation in Washington DC, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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African-American oyster peddler in Baltimore, 1880s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Freed African-Americans embarking for the North on riverboats after the Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Former slaves fleeing to Kansas from yellow fever outbreak in South, 1870s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Former slaves on a boat to the North after the Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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African-American man traveling on foot. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Former slave couple in spring outside their cabin in Virginia after the Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Emancipated slaves fleeing to Union-held soil, 1863
Former slaves reaching Union lines after the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Dred Scott in 1857, who lost Supreme Court case and was returned to slavery after residing in a free state. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Poet Phyllis Wheatly. Hand-colored woodcut of an 18th-century illustration

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Booker T. Washington, president of Tuskegee Normal School, 1890s. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a photograph

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Joseph Hayne Rainey, first black US Congressman, admitted to the House in 1871. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

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Hiram R. Revels, first black elected to the US Senate, 1870. Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a photograph

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Robert Smalls, Civil War hero and Union naval officer, African-American US Congressman from South Caroilina. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Frederick Douglass as a young man, with his autograph. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century portrait

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Phyllis Wheatley statue, Boston Womens Memorial. Digital photograph

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Phyllis Wheatley statue, Boston Womens Memorial. Digital photograph

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Phyllis Wheatley statue, Boston Womens Memorial. Digital photograph

Former slaves meeting with federal officials in North Carolina, 1866
General Stedman and other officials meeting with freed slaves near Trent River, North Carolina, 1866. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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