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Women laborers "pounding rice the hard way," Hobcaw Barony Plantation, Georgetown County, South Carolina, circa 1900, courtesy of the Georgetown County Public Library.

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Enslaved family at the Gaines' house, photograph by G. H. Houghton, Virginia, 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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African Americans carrying sheaves of rice, South Carolina, 1895, courtesy of the New York Public Library.

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A cotton-farming family in a cotton field, c. 1890s, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

A group of workers planting sweet potatoes, photograph by Henry P. Moore, Hopkinson's Plantation, Edisto Island, South Carolina, 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Illustration depicting Africans crowded onto upper and lower decks of the ship "Wildfire," from Harper's Weekly Magazine, 1860, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Photograph of a group of women and children doing laundry with a scrub board and tub, circa 1900, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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"Proposition to the President to Employ the Emancipated Negroes at Port Royal," Ellis, Britton, and Eaton, Springfield, Vermont, 1863, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Freedmen and teachers in front of the Beaufort Library, photograph by Hubbard & Mix, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Illustration of William and Ellen Craft, published by Porter & Coates, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1872, courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Collections.

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