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Page from Union News, Local 15 union newspaper, featuring a photograph of Isaiah Bennett, July 1952, courtesy of Avery Research Center.

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"Resonance," detail of 55-A King Street, Charleston, South Carolina, 1993, photograph by Claire Y. Greene,Keeper of the Gate: Designs in Wrought Iron by Philip Simmons, Master Blacksmith, courtesy of the Philip Simmons Foundation.

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"Doxology," 55 South Street, Charleston, South Carolina, 1993, photograph by Claire Y. Greene,Keeper of the Gate: Designs in Wrought Iron by Philip Simmons, Master Blacksmith, courtesy of the Philip Simmons Foundation.

Slave badge, stamped "Charleston No. 136 Mechanic 1833," Charleston, South Carolina, Walter Pantovic Artifact Collection, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

Copper slave badge, square in shape. Face is stamped "Charleston No. 136 Mechanic 1833."

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

"Am I Not A Man And A Brother?," 1787, courtesy of the Library of Congress.

“A bill for abolishing the trade carried on for supplying foreign territories with slaves,” 1793, London, England, courtesy of Northwestern University, Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies.

Peter Simmons, Charleston, South Carolina, ca. 1920, printed in John Michael Vlach,Charleston Blacksmith: The Work of Philip Simmons, revised edition (1992), courtesy of Philip Simmons Foundation.

Detail of gate at the Christopher Gadsden house, 329 East Bay Street, Charleston, South Carolina, 1993, photograph by Claire Y. Greene, Philip Simmons Collection, courtesy of the Avery Research Center.

Photograph of detail of gate at the Christopher Gadsden house, 329 East Bay Street.

J.M.W. Turner's "The Slave Ship," depicts slavers throwing overboard the dead and dying. Oil on Canvas. 1840. Original located at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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