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"The Radical Convention in Philadelphia," woodcut with letterpress, September 3, 1866,courtesy of Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Engraving illustrates degrading stereoptyes of interracial political alliances.

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"The Queen of Industry, or The New South," ca. 1882, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division.

"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.

"The Old Plantation," painting by John Rose, South Carolina, circa 1780, courtesy of the Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller Art Museum, Williamsburg, Virginia.

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"The New South - The Triumph of Free Labor," published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, October 23, 1895, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division.

"The new South - the triumph of free labor," New York, October 1895, illustration by Udo J. Keppler,Puck, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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"The Nature of the Current Revolts," handwritten essay by Septima P. Clark, n.d., Septima P. Clark Papers, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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"The Mosque of Sankore," Timbuctoo the Mysterious, Félix Dubois, Timbuktu, Mali, 1896, courtesy of the University of California Library.

"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."

"The land of the free and the home of the brave," watercolor by Henry Byam Martin, Charleston, South Carolina, March 4, 1833, courtesy of Library and Archives Canada.

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