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Descriptive List of Free Negroes, Charleston, South Carolina, 1864, Charleston Firefighters Rosters Collection, courtesy of The Charleston Museum, Charleston, South Carolina.

List of volunteer firefighters of city engine number 6, including their names, ages, description, occupation, and residence. Donated to the Charleston Museum by Charles Pequette, 1925

“A bill for abolishing the trade carried on for supplying foreign territories with slaves,” 1793, London, England, courtesy of Northwestern University, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies.

"Am I Not A Man And A Brother?," 1787, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

"Heroes of the Slave Trade Abolition," wood engraving, ca. nineteenth century, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London, England.

J.H. Holloway business card, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1905,Holloway Family Scrapbook, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

Business card, ca. 1905, advertising the harness shop of J.H. Holloway.

Slave badge, stamped "Charleston No. 136 Mechanic 1833," Charleston, South Carolina, Walter Pantovic Artifact Collection, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

Copper slave badge, square in shape. Face is stamped "Charleston No. 136 Mechanic 1833."

List of Slave Carpenters with New Tools Received, 1852, Heyward and Ferguson Family Papers Collection, courtesy of Special Collections at the College of Charleston.

Short list of slave carpenters and the tools assigned to them, plantation unknown. 1p.

"Doxology," 55 South Street, Charleston, South Carolina, 1993, photograph by Claire Y. Greene,Keeper of the Gate: Designs in Wrought Iron by Philip Simmons, Master Blacksmith, courtesy of the Philip Simmons Foundation.

"Resonance," detail of 55-A King Street, Charleston, South Carolina, 1993, photograph by Claire Y. Greene,Keeper of the Gate: Designs in Wrought Iron by Philip Simmons, Master Blacksmith, courtesy of the Philip Simmons Foundation.

Page from Union News, Local 15 union newspaper, featuring a photograph of Isaiah Bennett, July 1952, courtesy of Avery Research Center.

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