Enslaved Africans being Carried to a Slave Ship

Enslaved Africans being Carried to a Slave Ship, Gold Coast, late 17 th cent. , from Thomas Astley (ed. ), A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels (London, 1745 -47), vol. 2, plate 61. Source: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. http: //hitchcock. itc. virginia. edu/Slavery/index. html

A 1739 runaway slave advertisement from the Virginia Gazette (Source: Virginia Runaways. http: //people. uvawise. edu/runaways/)

Benjamin Latrobe, “An Overseer Doing His Duty, ” 1798. Source: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas. http: //hitchcock. itc. virginia. edu/Slavery/details. php? filename=NW 0048

Thomas Jefferson

Southwestern expansion of slavery, 1790 -1860: Source: Henretta et al. , America’s History Vol 1: To 1877 (Bedford/St. Martin, 4 th Ed. , 2000), 293

George Bourne, Slavery Illustrated in Its Effects upon Women (1837) Source: http: //historymatters. gmu. edu/d/6726/

Status of slavery in the western territories Source: Henretta et al. , America’s History Vol 1: To 1877 (Bedford/St. Martin, 4 th Ed. , 2000), 430

Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" at Foller's house, May 14, 1862. Source: http: //memory. loc. gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome. html

Arlington, Va. Band of 107 th U. S. Colored Infantry at Fort Corcoran, November 1865 Source: http: //memory. loc. gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome. html

Two views of Reconstruction: 1867 and 1874. Source: http: //blackhistory. harpweek. com/

Fountain Hughes, ca. 1952. Source: http: //memory. loc. gov/ammem/collections/voices/vfssp. html#Fountain. Hughes. html