A Bold Look At The History Of Slavery (21 pics)
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- 27 Apr, 2014 |
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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.
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A black Union soldier sits, posted in front of a slave auction house on Whitehall Street in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1864
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Copy of original bill of sale for slaves, in Charleston, South Carolina
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A group of men posing in front of Lynch’s Slave Market, St. Louis, Missouri, 1852
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Scars of a whipped slave April 2, 1863, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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How to fit 454 slaves on a ship
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Price of a slave in 1800′s
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Escaped slaves, ca. 1862
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This man, Renty, was an African-born slave owned by B.F. Taylor from Columbia, South Carolina when this portrait was taken in 1850
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Rescued east African slaves aboard HMS Daphne, a British Royal Navy vessel involved in anti-slave trade activities in the Indian Ocean
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Harriet Tubman with rescued slaves- Auburn, NY, circa 1887
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Ex-slaves attend reunion convention. Washington D.C. – October, 1916
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88-year-old Mrs. Sally Fickland, a former slave, looking at the Emancipation Proclamation in 1947, which was signed when she was 3
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To My Old Master: A former slave’s letter in response to his old master’s request to work for him again