A Bold Look At The History Of Slavery (21 pics)
It's hard to believe that slavery was a common thing at one time but it was. Take a look back at how things used to be.
A black Union soldier sits, posted in front of a slave auction house on Whitehall Street in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1864
Copy of original bill of sale for slaves, in Charleston, South Carolina
A group of men posing in front of Lynch’s Slave Market, St. Louis, Missouri, 1852
Scars of a whipped slave April 2, 1863, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
How to fit 454 slaves on a ship
Price of a slave in 1800′s
Escaped slaves, ca. 1862
This man, Renty, was an African-born slave owned by B.F. Taylor from Columbia, South Carolina when this portrait was taken in 1850
Rescued east African slaves aboard HMS Daphne, a British Royal Navy vessel involved in anti-slave trade activities in the Indian Ocean
Harriet Tubman with rescued slaves- Auburn, NY, circa 1887
Ex-slaves attend reunion convention. Washington D.C. – October, 1916
88-year-old Mrs. Sally Fickland, a former slave, looking at the Emancipation Proclamation in 1947, which was signed when she was 3
To My Old Master: A former slave’s letter in response to his old master’s request to work for him again
