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

Female Cook in her Kitchen, Virginia, early 1850s.jpg

Depiction of two enslaved domestic workers and an enslaved child playing at the servitude of white children titled "Domestic Life in South Carolina," printed in The Illustrated London News, 1863, courtesy of the New York Public Library.

Enslaved House Servants and White Children, South Carolina, 1863.jpg

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

Enslaved Nursemaid with White Children, Virginia, 1790s.jpg

Enslaved African Americans outside of their plantation cabin homes, from Scribner's Monthly, Charleston, South Carolina, 1874, courtesy of University of Virginia Library.

Houses of Plantation Slaves, South Carolinia, 1860.jpg

Depiction of enslaved African Americans outside of their cabins from Sketches from the North American War, 1861-65, Adolf Carlsson Warberg, circa 1861, courtesy of University of Virginia Library.

Slave Quarters, Louisiana, 1861-65.jpg

Sketch of enslaved African Americans outside of their cabins, from Sketches from the North American War, 1861-65, Adolf Carlsson Warberg, circa 1861, courtesy of University of Virginia Library.

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.

African American women selling sweet potatoes, from The Illustrated London News, sketch by Eyre Crowe, Charleston, South Carolina, 1861, courtesy of Slave Images.

Women selling Sweet Potatoes, Charleston, South Carolina, 1861.jpg

Pass for an enslaved woman named Grace, Charleston, South Carolina, 1849, courtesy of the College of Charleston Libraries.

Isaac Riddell. Slave pass, 1849.jpg

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.

Mistress beating enslaved woman.jpg

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