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"Horrid massacre in Virginia," 1831, courtesy of Library of Congress.

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

"Happy New Year," a Rosh Hashanah postcard, illustration by Friedrich Kaskeline, courtesy of Special Collections at the College of Charleston.

"Group of children in the kindergarten school composed of the cotton mill people," Dallas Cotton Mill, Dallas, Texas, December 1913, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, National Child Labor Committee Collection.

"Group of African Negroes on Board The Niagara.--From a sketch by our own correspondent," Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, October 9, 1858, Charleston Museum Illustrated Newspapers Collection, courtesy of the Charleston Museum.

This image indicates the interest Charlestonians took in the Echo Africans. The illustrator invites us to compare "civilization" with "savagery", but by including the federal officer as the African's apparent ward, he also asks us to questions the…

"Gossypium barbadense," from Charles D’Orbigny’s Dictionnaire Universel d’Histoire Naturelle, 1849, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

"Good-bye to Jim Crow?", handwritten essay by Septima P. Clark "regarding the basic historic differences between black and white America," n.d., Septima P. Clark Papers, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

"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.

"Girls' Annual Speaking Contest," program, 1936, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

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"German Lutheran Church, St. Johns' Church and Unitarian Church" from Charleston, S.C.: Indelible Photographs, ca. 1890-1899, courtesy of the Historic Charleston Foundation Monographs and Photographs Collection, Historic Charleston Foundation.

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