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Enslaved women and children at auction, from Cassell's History of the United States, Edmund Ollier, circa 1874, courtesy of Slavery Images.

Slave Auction, U.S. South, mid-19th cent.Jpg

Illustration of an enslaved mother separated from her child, from The White Slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive, Richard Hildreth, 1852, courtesy of Documenting the South.

Enslaved women separated from child.jpg

Enslaved people coffled on a forced march, illustration from A Popular History of the United States, circa 1876, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Slave Coffle, Washington, D.C., ca. 181.jpg

Photograph of Selina Gray, enslaved housekeeper Robert E. Lee and Mary Custis Lee, with her two daughters, Arlington, Virginia, circa 1860, courtesy of the National Parks Service.

Sketch of a slave patrol stopping enslaved men in search of slave passes, Frederic B. Schell, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1863, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

The plantation police or home-guard examining Negro passes on the levee road below New Orleans.jpg

Enslaved African Americans at a Christmas festival as their white enslavers observe, Frank Leslie, 1857, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Plantation frolic on Christmas eve.jpg

"Effects of the Fugitive-Slave-Law," drawing depicting four African American enslaved or freedmen ambushed by armed white men, Theodor Kaufmann, 1850, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Pursued runaway enslaved men.jpg

Portrait of Sarah Grudger, interviewee of the WPA Slave Narrative Project, North Carolina, circa 1936, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Sarah Gudger, WPA respondent.jpg

"Old Kentucky Home: Negro Life at the South," Eastman Johnson, 1859, courtesy of the New-York Historical Society.

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"Sunday Morning in the Kitchen," Charles A. Vaughn, 1845, courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

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