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Midwife wrapping her kit to go on a call, Jack Delano, Greene County, Georgia, 1941, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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Portion of "Charleston Square," painting by Charles J. Hamilton, Charleston, South Carolina, 1872, courtesy of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.

Group portrait depicting six generations of women in an African American family, R.W. Harrison, Selma, Alabama, 1893, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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Group portrait of a white family and an African American girl, New Market, Virginia, circa 1860, courtesy of Slavery Images.

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Group portrait of a white family and an African American woman, S.C. Landon, New Milford, Connecticut, circa 1860-1870, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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Portrait of an African American nurse and her charge, Disbrow & Few, Albion, New York, 1866, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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Portrait of an African American nurse and her charge, Wenderoth, Taylor & Brown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1860-1870, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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Photograph of "Mammy Prater," a formerly enslaved woman, sewing, circa 1920, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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Posed photograph of a domestic servant reading to her charge, 1897, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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A group of free men and children at Haxall's Mill, Richmond, Virginia, 1865, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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