Kentucky Gallery

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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KKK murderers visit a black familys cabin, 1800s

Ku Klux Klansmen wrapped in sheets on a murderous raid in a black family's cabin, late 1800s.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Foraging Confederate soldiers taking homemade pies from a farmhouse during Morgan's Raid, 1863.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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