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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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Portrait of Hagar Brown, a formerly enslaved woman, photograph by Bayard Wootten, Georgetown, South Carolina, 1938, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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Map depicting percentages of slaves in populations of each county in slave-holding states, E. Hergesheimer, 1861, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Two African American women winnowing rice, Sapelo Island, South Carolina, circa 1900, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Wood engraving from Harper's Weekly depicting African Americans planting cotton, 1875, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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Wood engraving depicting the celebration of Emancipation Day at Smith's Plantation, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1863, 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.

Photograph depicting a large group of African Americans on the Fish Haul Plantation, photograph by Henry P. Moore, Hilton Head, South Carolina, circa 1862, courtesy of the Getty Museum.

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African Americans carrying sheaves of rice, South Carolina, 1895, courtesy of the New York Public Library.

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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.

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