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Map of Charleston Harbor, image by Edmund M. Blunt, 1822, courtesy of the University of Alabama Department of Geography.

1969 Hospital Workers Strike participants at historic marker unveiling, image by Kerry Taylor, Charleston, South Carolina, October 2013.

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Description of a slave sale and the enslaved labor force at Jericho Plantation, Mathurin Guerin Gibbs Plantation Register, Bethera, South Carolina, January 14, 1845, courtesy of the South Carolina Historical Society.

Example of a daily labor schedule on Jericho Plantation, Mathurin Guerin Gibbs Plantation Register, Bethera, South Carolina, April 12, 1845, courtesy of theSouth Carolina Historical Society.

Letter from the Spanish Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabel to Nicolas Ovando, Spain, 20 March 1503, courtesy of the Archivo General de Indias, Sevilla, Spain. The monarchs, on Ovando's recommendation, ban the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

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"The Modern Samson," by Thomas Nast, 1868, Harper's Weekly, courtesy of the Library of Congress. The cartoon features caricatures of armed Democratic southern politicians about to attack a former slave weakened by the loss of suffrage at the hands of "southern democracy."

"Glimpses at the Freedmen - The Freedmen's Union Industrial School," Richmond, Virginia, sketch by Jas E. Taylor, 22 September 1866, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper. Image depicts white northern teachers instructing former slaves.

Benjamin Tillman, ca. 1905, courtesy of the Library of Congress. Tillman participated in one of the most prominent paramilitary skirmishes that took place in South Carolina during reconstruction, the Hamburg Massacre (1876), which resulted in the death of seven African Americans. No whites were prosecuted for the killings, and Tillman later boasted about his role in these events during his successful 1890 campaign for governor of South Carolina.

"Red Shirt" worn by militants in political rallies and in African American neighborhoods to intimidate voters during and after Reconstruction, 2011, courtesy of the North Carolina Museum of History.

"The Panic - Run on the Fourth National Bank," New York City, New York, Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 4 October 1873, courtesy of the Library of Congress. The Panic of 1873 caused northern economic concerns to take precendent over the struggles of southern freedpeople.

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