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Roger Brook Taney
Title
Roger Brook Taney
Description
Portrait of Roger Brooke Taney, Chief Justice of the United States from 1836-1864. Taney is most remembered for his majority opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandrord case, which ruled that African-Americans, whether free or slave, could never be considered citizens of the United States and that Congress lacked the power to prohibit slavery in any federal territories.
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Image
Date
n.d.
Reconstruction
Title
Reconstruction
Description
Lithograph of Horatio Bateman's allegorical illustration of the reconciliation between the North and the South following the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the Reconstruction Era.
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Image
Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA General
Title
Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA General
Description
Carte de visite portrait of Confederate General and first Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, circa 1863-1870.
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Image
Emancipation Day Celebration
Title
Emancipation Day Celebration
Description
Photograph of former Texas slaves celebrating Juneteenth in the "East Woods" on 24th Street in Austin, Texas, June 19, 1900.
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Image
Date
June 19, 1900
A Negro Regiment in Action
Title
A Negro Regiment in Action
Description
This is a print of a Thomas Nast wood engraving, originally published in Harper’s Weekly on March 14, 1863. It depicts the Battle of Island Mound, the first Civil War battle to include African-American troops. In that battle, the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteers triumphed over a band of pro-Confederate guerrillas in Bates County, Missouri on October 29, 1862.
Object Type
Image
Date
March 14, 1863
13th Amendment Print
Title
13th Amendment Print
Description
Commemorative print of the congressional resolution for the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.
Object Type
Image
Date
1868
Clarina Irene Howard Nichols
Title
Clarina Irene Howard Nichols
Description
Engraving of Clarina I.H. Nichols, prominent activist and journalist, from an 1887 publication of the "History of Woman Suffrage".
Object Type
Image
Date
1887
1st Kansas Colored Infantry flag
Title
1st Kansas Colored Infantry flag
Description
Regimental flag of the First Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry, who triumphed over the Missouri State Guard in the Battle of Island Mound. It was the first battle of the Civil War to be fought by a regiment of African-American soldiers.
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Image
Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri
Title
Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri
Description
Commemorative lithograph celebrating the emancipation of Missouri slaves by ordinance of Governor Thomas C. Fletcher on January 11, 1865, three weeks before the Thirteenth Amendment was proposed by Congress.
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Image
Western University, Quindaro, Kansas
Title
Western University, Quindaro, Kansas
Description
A photograph of Ward Hall and Industrial Building, Western University, once located in the now abandoned town of Quindaro, Wyandotte County, Kansas. This image is included in the 1911 publication of "History of Wyandotte County, Kansas, and its people". Western University opened in 1865 as an exclusively African American college.
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Image
Amos Adams Lawrence
Title
Amos Adams Lawrence
Description
Portrait of Amos A. Lawrence, namesake of Lawrence, Kansas.
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Image
Office of the Freedmen's Bureau, Memphis, Tennessee
Title
Office of the Freedmen's Bureau, Memphis, Tennessee
Description
Harper's Weekly illustration of the Freedmen's Bureau Office in Memphis, Tennessee. The Freedmen's Bureau provided support for African Americans’ transition from slavery to freedom.
Object Type
Image
Date
June 2, 1866
William D. Matthews
Title
William D. Matthews
Description
Sepia carte de visite of William Dominick Matthews, Captain of the First Kansas Colored Volunteers, posing in uniform with cavalry saber.
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Image
New England Emigrant Aid Company Sign
Title
New England Emigrant Aid Company Sign
Description
Sign advertising the New England Emigrant Aid Company.
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Image
Rebel Negro Pickets as Seen Through a Field-Glass
Title
Rebel Negro Pickets as Seen Through a Field-Glass
Description
Harper's Weekly illustration depicting African American soldiers in the Confederate States Army, January 10, 1863.
Object Type
Image
Date
January 10, 1863
Dred Scott
Title
Dred Scott
Description
Wood engraving of Dred Scott in "Century Magazine," 1887.
Object Type
Image
Date
1887
John Brown
Title
John Brown
Description
Sepia-tone reproduction print of abolitionist John Brown.
Object Type
Image
John Brown, 1800-1859, Memorial Frame
Title
John Brown, 1800-1859, Memorial Frame
Description
Memorial portrait of Abolitionist John Brown. Frame includes the words, "The Just man shall be in eternal remembrance -- Gave his life for the liberation of the slave."
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Image
"Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street
Title
"Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street
Description
Black and white photograph of an Atlanta, Georgia, slave market taken my George N. Barnard, official photographer of the Chief Engineer's Office, while Sherman's army occupied the city before the famous "March to the Sea" during the Savannah Campaign.
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Image
Emancipation Proclamation. Proclamation by the Governor
Title
Emancipation Proclamation. Proclamation by the Governor
Description
Commemorative print celebrating the emancipation of Missouri slaves by ordinance of Governor Thomas C. Fletcher on January 11, 1865.
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Image

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