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

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Illustration of an enslaved man preaching to a congregation of enslaved people with the slaveholding family present, from The Illustrated London News, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1863, courtesy of University of Virginia Library.

Illustration of an enslaved cook, David Hunter Strother, Virginia, 1856, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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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.

Illustration of a white mistress whipping an enslaved African American girl from Picture of Slavery in the United States of America, 1834, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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

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

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Illustration from tobacco advertisement depicting enslaved people working on a plantation, early 1700s, courtesy of the British Museum collection database.

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