Lawlessness Gallery

Mob burning abolitionist Elijah Lovejoys print-shop, Illinois, 1835

Pro-slavery mob burning the print-shop of abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy, Alton, Illinois, 1835.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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1800s, 1830s, 1835, 19th Century, Abolition, Abolitionist, Alton, American, Arson, Art, Black History, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Elijah Lovejoy, Freedom Of The Press, Hate Crime, Heritage, Historic, History, Illinois, Illustration, Lawlessness, Lovejoy, Mob, Mob Violence, North America, Persecution, Prejudice, Printer, Pro Slavery, Riot, Rioter, Slavery, Traditional, United States, Us A, Vintage, Violence

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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1800s, 1860s, 1868, 19th Century, Abolition, American, Art, Ballot Box, Cartoon, Civil Rights, Discrimination, Emancipation, Former Slave, Free Black, Freed Slave, Freedman, Freedom, Government, Heritage, Historic, History, Illustration, Lawlessness, Mob, Mob Violence, Nast, North America, Political Cartoon, Prejudice, Reconstruction, Right To Vote, Riot, Rioter, South, Southern, Thomas Nast, Traditional, United States, Us A, Vintage, Violence, Voting

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Leonard Parkinson, a captain of Maroons during a Negro insurrection in Jamaica, 1700s.
Hand-colored woodcut reproduction of a contemporary illustration

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1700s, 18th Century, Agriculture, Antislaveryi, Art, British Colony, British Empire, Caribbean, Caribbean Island, Colonial, Colony, Gun, Historic, History, Illustration, Insurrection, Jamaica, Jamaican, Lawlessness, Leonard Parkinson, Maroon, Maroons, Negro, Rebellion, Revolt, Slave, Slavery, Uprising, Vintage, Weapon, West Indies