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Approximate locations of "free persons of color," based on the 1859 City Directory, map prepared by Martha Zierden, Charleston, South Carolina, 1984, courtesy of the Charleston Museum. This map was produced in "Between the Tracks: Charleston's East Side During the Nineteenth Century," by Dale Rosengarten, Martha Zierden, Kimberly Grimes, Ziyadah Owusu, Elizabeth Alston, and Will Williams III.

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"The Broomstick Wedding," from The Story of my Life, or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years, by Mary A. Livermore, 1897, Virginia, courtesy of Slavery Images.

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Portrait of Harriet Jacobs, photograph by C.M. Gilbert, Washington, D.C., 1894, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

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Newly freed people posing for a photograph, stereoscopic photograph by Hubbard & Mix, St. Helena Island, South Carolina, circa 1865, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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An illustration of a slaveholding woman whipping an enslaved woman, from Picture of Slavery in the United States of America, by George Bourne, 1834, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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A hand-tinted photograph depicting a group of African American women and girls standing on a rice raft, stereoscopic photograph by Strohmeyer and Wyman, Georgetown, South Carolina, 1895, courtesy of South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina.

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Newly freed women and children outside of a home labeled as "Aunt Betsey's Cabin," steroscopic photograph by J.A. Palmer, Aiken, South Carolina, 1875, courtesy of South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina.

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The Whitaker family, photograph by J.A. Palmer, Aiken, South Carolina, 1874, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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Photograph of a group of African American women and children in front of a wooden building, Redcliffe Plantation, Beech Island, South Carolina, circa 1900, courtesy of South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina.

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An enslaved woman auctioned for sale, The Illustrated London New, Richmond, Virginia, 1856, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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