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"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.

"A Visit from the Old Mistress," painting by Winslow Homer, 1876, courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Company E, 4th US Colored Troops at Fort Lincoln, outside of Washington D.C., 17 November 1865, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Samuel Miller apprenticeship indenture, 1805, courtesy of the South Carolina Historical Society.

Samuel Stent Miller apprenticed himself to Gabriel Manigault Bounetheau, a Charleston (S.C.) printer, for a period of five years. Gabriel Manigault Bounetheau was a Justice of the Peace, Clerk of Council, and a printer with an office at 3 Broad…

Recipe for "Cheap Paint" made with rice flour and lime, ca. 1790-1821, Thomas Pinckney Papers, courtesy of the South Carolina Historical Society.

Moriscos, drawing from Trachtenbuch by Christoph Weiditz, ca. 1530-1540, courtesy of the Germanisches National Museum. Weiditz was a German painter who documented European peasant costumes.

View of the Elmina slave castle on the north-west side, located on the gold coast of Guinea (present day Ghana), Atlas Blaeu van der Hem, ca. 1665-1668.

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