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Illustration from Ford's Virginia tobacco label depicting enslaved laborers working on a colonial American plantation, courtesy of New York Public Library Digital Collections.

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Illustration depicting traditional African grave plot, courtesy of SCIWay.

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Illustration depicting gendered labor from "Rice Culture on the Ogeechee," A.R. Waud, Savannah, Georgia, 1867, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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Illustration depicting fortifications erected at Hilton Head, illustration by W. T. Crane, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Illustration depicting enslaved cooks carrying a prepared meal from a kitchen to a plantation house, Edward Windsor Kemble, circa 1880-1910.

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Illustration depicting an enslaved couple fleeing from slave patrollers, from Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, Written by Himself, 1849, courtesy of Documenting the American South.

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Illustration depicting Africans crowded onto upper and lower decks of the ship "Wildfire," from Harper's Weekly Magazine, 1860, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Illustration depicting a pregnant woman resting in a cotton field, from Scribner's Monthly, Alabama, 1874, courtesy of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse.

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Illustration depicting a female slaveholder berating an enslaved woman and child, Auguste Hervieu, Louisiana, 1836.

Illustration depicting "the new government buildings for 'contrabands' erected at Hilton Head," illustration by W. T. Crane, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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