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Photograph of a group of women and children doing laundry with a scrub board and tub, circa 1900, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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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.

the Africans of the slave bark _Wildfire_.jpg

A group of workers planting sweet potatoes, photograph by Henry P. Moore, Hopkinson's Plantation, Edisto Island, South Carolina, 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Sweet potato planting, Hopkinson's Plantation.jpg

A cotton-farming family in a cotton field, c. 1890s, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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

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Enslaved family at the Gaines' house, photograph by G. H. Houghton, Virginia, 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Enslaved family at the Gaines' house.jpg

Women laborers "pounding rice the hard way," Hobcaw Barony Plantation, Georgetown County, South Carolina, circa 1900, courtesy of the Georgetown County Public Library.

women pounding rice.jpg

Women picking cotton, Summerville, South Carolina, 1910, courtesy of College of Charleston Libraries.

women picking cotton.jpg

Image of an African American woman spinning wool, photograph by Paul Günter, Louisville, Kentucky, 1907, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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.

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