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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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Illustration depicting enslaved cooks carrying a prepared meal from a kitchen to a plantation house, Edward Windsor Kemble, circa 1880-1910.

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Wood engraving depicting a large group of enslaved people escaping bondage to join Union troops, A.R. Waud, Virginia, 1864, courtesy of Internet Archive.

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Wood engraving depicting enslaved people escaping by boat to cross Union lines, Harper's Weekly, 1864, courtesy of Internet Archive.

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Wood engraving depicting enslaved people escaping to a Union ship, Harper's Weekly, Combahee, South Carolina, 1863, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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