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Roger Brook Taney
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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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n.d.
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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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Emancipation Day Celebration
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Photograph of former Texas slaves celebrating Juneteenth in the "East Woods" on 24th Street in Austin, Texas, June 19, 1900.
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June 19, 1900
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A Negro Regiment in Action
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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.
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March 14, 1863
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13th Amendment Print
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Commemorative print of the congressional resolution for the Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery.
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1868
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Clarina Irene Howard Nichols
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Engraving of Clarina I.H. Nichols, prominent activist and journalist, from an 1887 publication of the "History of Woman Suffrage".
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1887
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1st Kansas Colored Infantry flag
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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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Emancipation Ordinance of Missouri
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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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Western University, Quindaro, Kansas
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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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Amos Adams Lawrence
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Portrait of Amos A. Lawrence, namesake of Lawrence, Kansas.
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Office of the Freedmen's Bureau, Memphis, Tennessee
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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.
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June 2, 1866
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William D. Matthews
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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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John Doy and Rescue Party
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Photograph taken by Amon Gilbert DaLee in Lawrence, Kansas Territory in the summer of 1859 depicting Dr. John Doy, his son Charles, and his rescue party, which freed him from the St. Joseph, MO jail on July 23, 1859, where he was being held on charges of abducting slaves.
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1859
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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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John Ritchie
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Carte de visite portrait of John Ritchie, an abolitionist who worked on the Underground Railroad and served as a delegate to the Leavenworth Constitutional Convention.
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n.d.
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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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