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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.

"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."

General agreement form for freedmen and women as laborers on a plantation, 1865, Heyward and Ferguson Family Papers, courtesy of the College of Charleston Libraries.

1865 General agreement form for freedmen and women as laborers on a plantation. 3p.

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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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.

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.

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

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

Cainhoy Riot map

Hamburg massacre map

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