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Picture of one of Spelman College first buildings

Picture of one of Spelman College first buildings

A book about slavery and its results from the point of view of Alfred, H.Benners, an Alabaman descent from slave owners

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…

This archival item is an advertisement promoting slave trade.

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…

Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers'…