This image depicts a large number of African men sitting on the floor of the slave ship, Wildfire. The slaves were malnourished and deported in overcrowded ships. Although Georgia had restricted the importation of slaves in 1798, the ports near…
Image of the cover of Harrison Berry's book Slavery and Abolitionism as Viewed by a Georgia Slave, published in Atlanta, Georgia in 1861. This forty-six-page pamphlet was Berry's principal antebellum publication.
Berry, a literate slave artisan from…
Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Title in lower right margin: Georgia. Compiled in 1963. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.