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Afro-American Society, The Comet, Charleston, South Carolina, 1976, courtesy of Special Collections at College of Charleston.

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Africanisms in the Gullah Dialect, Lorenzo Dow Turner, 1949, courtesy of University of South Carolina Press.

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African Passages, online exhibition developed with the College of Charleston and UNESCO TST Sites of Memory Education Project, developed early 2000s.

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African Laborers Cover

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African burial ground, Manhattan, New York, ca. 1700s. The African Burial Ground National Monument currently preserves this site containing the remains of more than 400 enslaved and free Africans buried during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in New York City. Slavery was generally more prevalent and politically supported in New York City than other northern cities such as Philadelphia and Boston.

African Americans preparing cotton for the gin, photograph by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Port Royal, South Carolina, 1862, courtesy of Library of Congress.

African Americans in front of cabin in South Carolina, ca. 1860-1900, courtesy of Black America.

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

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

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