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Illustration of an enslaved woman, E.W. Kemble, from Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1891, courtesy of The Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.

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Illustration of both male and female enslavers beating an enslaved African American woman, from Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself, 1849, courtesy of Documenting the South.

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Illustration of enslaved African American family outside of a cabin on a rice plantation, from Harper's Weekly, T. Addison Richards, 1859, courtesy of University of Virginia.

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Illustration of the 55th Massachusetts Regiment marching on the streets of Charleston, Harper's Weekly, 1865, courtesy of the Charleston County Public Library.

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Illustration of the exterior of a public mikvah taken from The Secret of the Jew, by Rabbi David Miller, circa 1930.

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Illustration of the interior of public mikvah taken from The Secret of the Jew, by Rabbi David Miller, circa 1930.

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Illustration of weighing and kneading flour for matzoth in the presence of a rabbi, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, New York, 1858, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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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Image detail, Carte de Caroline, 1695/1696 Carte Particuliere de la Caroline. Shows ferry landing and St. Paul's Church

Image from Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, 1853, courtesy of Documenting the American South, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.

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