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Reconstruction
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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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Nathan Bedford Forrest, CSA General
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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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The Underground Railroad
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Charles T. Webber's depiction of abolitionists helping runaway slaves on their journey to freedom.
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Dred Scott
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Wood engraving of Dred Scott in "Century Magazine," 1887.
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1887
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John Brown
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Sepia-tone reproduction print of abolitionist John Brown.
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John Brown, 1800-1859, Memorial Frame
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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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"Auction & Negro Sales," Whitehall Street
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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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The Cradle of the G.O.P.
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Lithograph of Pittsburgh's Lafayette Hall, where the first Republic National Convention convened on February 22, 1856. The image depicts the exterior and interior of LaFayette Hall at the time of the first Republican convention.
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January 29, 1897
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Honorable Eli Thayer of Massachusetts
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Eli Thayer, founder of the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society, later renamed to the New England Emigrant Aid Company. Thayer and other antislavery advocates charted the Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Society on April 26, 1854.
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Commemorative lithograph celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation.
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Harriet Tubman
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Harriet Tubman, full-length portrait, standing with hands on back of a chair. Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery and then returned to the South 19 times to escort over 300 slaves to freedom.
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1811-1896
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Portrait of abolitionist and author, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Stowe's novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin," galvanized anti-slavery sentiment in the North, while provoking widespread anger in the South.
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Constitutional Convention, Topeka, Kansas Territory [Topeka]
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Wood engraving depicting the Topeka Constitutional Convention of December 15, 1855. At the convention, Free-Staters voted to adopt the Topeka Constitution for Kansas Territory, provisionally banning slavery in Kansas and allowing suffrage for "civilized" male Native Americans, but still excluded blacks from settling in the state. However, the constitution failed to gain the recognition of proslavery settlers and the federal government, including President Franklin Pierce, who declared the Topeka legislature to be illegal and treasonous.
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December 15, 1855
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Emancipation Proclamation
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Description
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This is a photograph of President Lincoln’s handwritten draft of the final Emancipation Proclamation. Lincoln liberated millions of African Americans from slavery with these famous words: “I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free.” The original draft of the Proclamation, issued on January 1, 1863, was lost in the Chicago fire of 1871.
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Government Document
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Date
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January 1, 1863