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"The Broomstick Wedding," from The Story of my Life, or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years, by Mary A. Livermore, 1897, Virginia, courtesy of Slavery Images.

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Approximate locations of "free persons of color," based on the 1859 City Directory, map prepared by Martha Zierden, Charleston, South Carolina, 1984, courtesy of the Charleston Museum. This map was produced in "Between the Tracks: Charleston's East Side During the Nineteenth Century," by Dale Rosengarten, Martha Zierden, Kimberly Grimes, Ziyadah Owusu, Elizabeth Alston, and Will Williams III.

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Map depicting the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, courtesy of the National Parks Service.

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Photograph of an African American woman, Celia, working as a domestic laborer, caring for a white infant, Redcliffe Plantation, Beech Island, South Carolina, 1898, courtesy of South Caroliniana Library at the University of South Carolina. After emancipation, one avenue of employment that remained open to African American women was child care for white families. White families continued to use the term "Mammy" to refer to the African American woman they employed to care of their children.

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Sketch of an enslaved woman carrying a bundle, from The Great South, Edward King, 1875, courtesy of University of Virginia Library Special Collections.

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Freed people going to a market, from Harper's Weekly Magazine, Savannah, Georgia, 1875, courtesy of Slavery Images.

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"A Road-side Scene," from Picturesque America, by Harry Fenn and William Cullen Bryant, Charleston, South Carolina, 1870, courtesy of College of Charleston Libraries.

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Doctor's bill for Lizza, an enslaved woman, Thomas County, Georgia, 1853, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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Photograph of Nancy Weston, from Archibald Grimke Papers, circa 1900s, courtsey of Howard University.

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Bill of sale for an enslaved woman, Charlotte, and her daughter, Pheobe, Charleston, South Carolina, 1851, courtesy of College of Charleston Libraries.

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