Freedom Gallery

Blacks crushed by prejudice and violence after emancipation

Immigrant, a southerner, and a businessman combine to declare the US to be "a white man's government," 1868.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Thomas Nast cartoon

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Patriotic American colonial woman spinning to avoid importing British cloth before the Revolutionary War.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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