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Wood engraving depicting Margaret Garner, an enslaved African American woman who murdered her children to avoid thier re-enslavement, Thomas Noble, 1867, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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An illustration of enslavers branding a captured African woman in West Africa, from Captain Canot Or Twenty Years of an African Slaver, 1854.

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Enslaved people congregated in Zion Chapel, an Episcopal church built for slaves in 1858 on Rockville Plantation, Wadmalaw Island, South Carolina, 1861, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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

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Photograph depicting a large group of African Americans on the Fish Haul Plantation, photograph by Henry P. Moore, Hilton Head, South Carolina, circa 1862, courtesy of the Getty Museum.

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Illustration of African American children attending Zion, a freedmen's school, A.R. Waud, Charleston, South Carolina, 1866, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Wood engraving depicting the celebration of Emancipation Day at Smith's Plantation, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1863, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Wood engraving from Harper's Weekly depicting African Americans planting cotton, 1875, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Two African American women winnowing rice, Sapelo Island, South Carolina, circa 1900, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Map depicting percentages of slaves in populations of each county in slave-holding states, E. Hergesheimer, 1861, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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