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"Shackles, Manacles, and Padlocks Used in the Slave Trade, early 19th cent.," Faits relatifs a la traite des noirs, published by the Société de la morale Chrétienne, Comité pour l'abolition de la traite des noirs, Paris, 1826, courtesy of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.

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"Revolt Aboard Slave Ship," by Isabelle Aguet, A Pictorial History of the Slave Trade, ca. nineteenth century, courtesy of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.

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"Slave Barracoon, Sierra Leone, 1840s," in The Illustrated London News, April 14, 1849, courtesy of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.

Slaves liberated from the slaver Zeldina, The Illustrated London News, June 20, 1857, courtesy of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library.

"U.S. brig Perry [confronting] American slave ship Martha off Ambriz, June 6, 1850," from Africa and the American Flagby Commodore Andrew Hull Foote, 1854, courtesy of the U.S. Navy History Center.

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Sketch of 91 Anson Street gate and fence, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1997, created by Philip Simmons, Philip Simmons Collection, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

Drawing of gate adorned with heart and crosses and a segement of surrounding fence. Gate is located at 91 Anson St.

Sketch of egret by Philip Simmons, Philip Simmons Collection, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

Sketch (9" x 12") of egret, similar to that used in Philip Simmons Gate at the South Carolina State Museum

"Master Blacksmith Philip Simmons" with scrolls above and below, sketch by Philip Simmons, Philip Simmons Collection, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

Sketch (8 1/2" x 12") of sign "Master Blacksmith Philip Simmons" with scrolls above and below

General Lee's Confederate officers in their first meeting since Appomattox, August 1869, White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, courtesy of the Heritage Auction Gallery.

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Report of the trials in the Echo cases, in federal court, Charleston, S.C., April, 1859: together with arguments of counsel and charge of the court, 1859, courtesy of the Library of Congress, American Memory Collection.

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