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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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Enslaved family outside of a cabin, photograph by G. H. Houghton, Virginia, 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Enslaved laborers working in tobacco sheds on a colonial tobacco plantation, 1670.

Enslaved nursemaid with grandchildren of a Virginia governor, Virginia, circa 1790, courtesy of Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

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Enslaved people building Confederate fortifications on James Island, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1863, courtesy of New York Public Library.

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

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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.

Enslaved people posed to show sweet potato planting at Hopkins Plantation, photograph by Henry P. Moore, Edisto Island, South Carolina, 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Enslaved people unloading the rice barges, J. Wells Champney, in Edward King's The Great South: A Record of Journeys, 1875, South Carolina, courtesy of Documenting the American South.

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