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Dr. Loomis Obstetrical Forceps, 1860, courtesy of Waring Historical Library Artifact Collection.

"Gossypium barbadense," from Charles D’Orbigny’s Dictionnaire Universel d’Histoire Naturelle, 1849, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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African American women carrying baskets on heads, circa 1920, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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African American woman basket weaver in Charleston South Carolina, Bayard Wootten, circa 1930.

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Home at Limerick Plantation, photograph by F. D. Kracke, Cordesville, South Carolina, circa 1910, courtesy of the Charleston Museum.

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Home on Wampee Plantation, photograph by Elias Ball Bull, Pinopolis, South Carolina, courtesy of the Charleston Archive at CCPL.

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Home on Old Benton Plantation, postcard by Charles G. Luther, Beaufort, South Carolina, courtesy of Beaufrot County Library.

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Home on unknown plantation, South Carolina, courtesy of the Charleston Museum Archives.

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Home on Middleburg Plantation, photograph by H. K. Leiding, Huger, South Carolina, courtesy of the Charleston Museum Archives.

A typical "Mammy," from Social Life in Old Virginia Before the War, Virginia, 1897, courtesy of The New York Public Library Digital Collections.

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