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Photograph depicting an enslaved family picking cotton, Pierre Havens, Savannah, Georgia, circa 1850s, courtesy of New York Historical Society.

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Photograph of a cotton boll, Michael Bass-Deschenes, Georgia, courtesy of New Georgia Encyclopedia.

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Painting titled "Ride for Liberty - The Fugitive Slaves," Eastman Johnson, circa 1862, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

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"Emancipation of the Negroes - The Past and the Future," Thomas Nast, 1863, courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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Population of enslaved people in North America in 1790 and 1860.

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Illustration depicting a female slaveholder berating an enslaved woman and child, Auguste Hervieu, Louisiana, 1836.

An enslaved domestic worker and her charge, Bryan Burnes, 1909, courtesy of Documenting the American South.

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Wood engraving depicting enslaved people escaping to a Union ship, Harper's Weekly, Combahee, South Carolina, 1863, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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Wood engraving depicting enslaved people escaping by boat to cross Union lines, Harper's Weekly, 1864, courtesy of Internet Archive.

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Wood engraving depicting a large group of enslaved people escaping bondage to join Union troops, A.R. Waud, Virginia, 1864, courtesy of Internet Archive.

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