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Contract between Thomas B. Ferguson and Freedmen Laborers to work on Dean Hall Plantation, Charleston, South Carolina, April 12, 1866, Heyward and Ferguson Family Papers, courtesy of the College of Charleston Libraries.

Copy of a contract between Thomas B. Ferguson and freedmen laborers and carpenters to work on Dean Hall Plantation. 1p. April 12, 1866.

"Visit of the Ku-Klux," drawn by Frank Bellew, Harper's Weekly, 1872, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

"Colored National Labor Union convention in Washington, D.C.," February 6, 1869, Harper's Weekly, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Editorial cartoon criticizing the usage of literacy tests for African Americans as a qualification to vote, Harper's Weekly, 1879, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

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African Americans in front of cabin in South Carolina, ca. 1860-1900, courtesy of Black America.

Former slaves on a plantation in Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Skilled freedmen working at the Union army’s carpenter shops in Beaufort, South Carolina, ca. 1860s, courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Excerpt of a 1869 U.S. Government map showing Mitchelville, South Carolina, a freedmen's town that was part of the Port Royal Experiment, located in what is now Hilton Head, South Carolina.

African American workers weeding on a Cape Fear River rice plantation, North Carolina, 1866, wood engraving in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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African American workers on a field hoeing rice, South Carolina, ca. 1904, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

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