Resource Bank Index
Historical Documents


• The Arrival of Europeans in Africa
• Portrait of a Negro
• Portrait of the Moorish Woman Katharina
• African Captives Yoked in Pairs
• The Hope of Jamestown
• Landing of Negroes at Jamestown from a Dutch Man-of-War, 1619
• Colonial laws
• The First Slave Auction at New Amsterdam in 1655
• Court document regarding Anthony Johnson
• Fort Mose
• A Way to Get Wealth
• The Selling of Joseph
• William Byrd's diary
• Portrait of Crispus Attucks in Boston Massacre
• An Englishman Tastes the Sweat of an African
• A View of Calabar
• Venture Smith's narrative
• Runaway notices
• Report from William Bull re. Stono Rebellion
• Report re. Stono Rebellion slave-catchers
• A List of White Persons taken into Custody on Account of the 1741 Conspiracy
• "Bars Fight"
• Portrait of Lemuel Haynes
• "Defense of Slavery in Virginia"
• The Marriage of Washington to Martha Custis
• "Of the Natural Rights of Colonists"
• Broadside announcing the sale of slaves
• "The Bloody Massacre..."
• Absalom Jones's marriage to Mary
• Runaway ad for Jem
• Illustration for Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects
• "To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth"
• Felix's petition
• Portrait of Phillis Wheatley
• Benezet Instructing Colored Children
• Illustration for Phillis Wheatley, Poems on Various Subjects
• Letter to Reverend Samson Occum
• Abigail Adams's letter to her husband
• The Watchman's Alarm
• Portrait of John Murray, Lord Dunmore
• Proclamation of Earl of Dunmore
• "A List of the Names of Provincials..."
• Runaway ad for Titus
• Rough draft of the Declaration Of Independence
• George Washington crossing the Delaware River by Sully
• George Washington crossing the Delaware River by Leutze
• Petition 1/13/1777
• Bill of Sale for drumheads, Prince Hall to Boston Regiment
• Portrait of Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett)
• Portrait of a black Revolutionary War sailor
• American foot soldiers, Yorktown campaign
• Battle of Cowpens
• The Quock Walker case: "Instructions to the Jury"
• Cato's letter and petition to the Pennsylvania Assembly
• Living Africans Thrown Overboard
• Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia
• Boston King's memories of the evacuation from New York
• British pass issued to black Loyalist
• The Book of Negroes
• Sedgewick and Hull letter to Rush
• Portrait of Agrippa Hull
• Portrait of Benjamin Rush
• Pro-slavery petitions in Virginia
• Portrait of Richard Allen
• Washington's letter to Robert Morris
• The Boston Plan
• The Declaration of Independence
• The Constitution
• "Am I Not a Man and a Brother?"
• The Constitutional Convention, 1787
• The Accident in Lombard Street
• Preamble of the Free African Society
• Constitution and Minutes of the PAS
• Alexander Falconbridge's account of the slave trade
• A Tobacco Plantation
• The Washington Family
• "Address to the Public"
• Plan of a ship for transporting slaves
• Frontispiece of Equiano's autobiography
• Equiano's autobiography
• Declaration of the Rights of Man
• Thomas Jefferson by Peale
• Banneker's letter to Jefferson
• Jefferson's reply to Banneker
• A Memorial to the South Carolina Senate
• The Slave Trade (Morland)
• A Negro Hung Alive by the Ribs to a Gallows
• Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
• Extracts from journal of Elizabeth Drinker
• Mortality
• Rush's letter to Julia Rush
• A Short Account of the Malignant Fever...
• Cotton gin petition
• Goal, [Jail] in Walnut Street Philadelphia
• A Narrative of the Proceedings of the Black People...
• "A Discourse...African Church"
• Eli Whitney's cotton gin
• "The Causes and Motives for Establishing St. Thomas's African Church..."
• Benjamin Banneker's Almanac
• Petition of Prince Witten
• Flora
• Map of Philadelphia, c. 1796
• Church on John's Island
• Back of State House, Philadelphia
• Petition of the "People of Colour...Philadelphia"
• "Revenge Taken by the Black Army"
• Toussaint L'Ouverture
• A portrait of Sara Allen
• Jefferson's letter to James Monroe
• Rebel's statement from Gabriel's Conspiracy
• Confession of Solomon
• Tobias Lear to Madison
• Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church
• Jones's sermon on the abolition of the international slave trade
• Portrait of Absalom Jones
• Rush's letter to Samuel Bayard
• Pepper-Pot: A Scene in the Philadelphia Market
• Memoir of Captain Paul Cuffee, Liverpool Mercury
• Black People's Prayer Meeting
• Sheriff's sale
• A portrait of James Forten
• Meeting of Free People of Color of Richmond, Virginia
• "The Author noting down the narratives..."
• Forten letter to Cuffe
• Portrait of Morris Brown
• Camp's letter to Caldwell
• Plan of Fort Gadsden
• Portrait of Yarrow Mamout
• Fourth of July Celebration in Centre Square
• Religious Experience and Journal of Mrs. Jarena Lee
• American Colonization Society: a Memorial to the United States Congress
• Missouri Compromise
• "Reflections, Occasioned by the late Disturbances in Charleston "
• Denmark Vesey brought before the Court
• Sentence of Gullah Jack
• Confession of Monday Gell
• "A Slave Is Tortured"
• Fugitives Arriving at Indiana Farm
• Specimen of Modern Printing Types, No. 844
• Levi Coffin's Underground Railroad station
• "Is Miss Dinah at Home? "
• "Grand Celebration Ob De Bobalition Ob African Slabery"
• "Black Charge"
• Jim Crow
• "On the Management of the Butler Estate"
• Richard Allen in Walker's Appeal
• The Goree Warehouses, Liverpool
• David Walker's Appeal
• "Address to the Free People of Colour of these United States"
• William McLean, "Offended Dignity"
• Andrew Jackson's Second Annual Message
• Excerpt from Gifts of Power, Rebecca Cox Jackson
• The Richmond Enquirer on Nat Turner's Rebellion
• "The Confessions of Nat Turner"
• Nat Turner preaches religion
• Discovery of Nat Turner
• "Fear of Insurrection"
• The Liberator: "To the Public"
• Editorial Regarding "Walker's Appeal"
• Appendix to Memorial to Pennsylvania Legislature
• The Life, Experience, and Gospel Labors of the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen...
• Francis Anne Kemble as Bianca
• "Kidnapping a free Negro to be sold into slavery"
• Runaway notice for Harriet Jacobs
• Abolitionist Samuel J. May confronts a northern merchant
• Beneficial and Charitable Societies
• Beneficial Societies
• Charles Ball's narrative: Fifty Years in Chains
• Cherokee letter protesting the Treaty of New Etocha
• Letter describing new cotton lands
• Letter to William Basset
• Schools
• Male and Female Literary Societies
• The Trail of Tears
• Angelina Grimké Weld's speech at Pennsylvania Hall
• Slave with Iron Muzzle
• Butler plantation slave
• Slave quarters on St. Georges Island
• A Northern Freeman Enslaved by Northern Hands
• The Slave Trade (Biard)
• Interior of a Slave Ship
• Garnet's "Call to Rebellion"
• Portrait of Henry Highland Garnet
• Portrait of Jarena Lee
• Antislavery convention
• Daguerreotype of Pierce Butler
• "Family Group ('The Hidden Witness')"
• Letters to R. C. Ballard regarding slave woman abuse
• List & Inventory of Negroes on Plantation...
• Flogging a Slave Fastened to the Ground
• The Slave Chain
• Insurrection on Board a Slave Ship
• "Executive Committee of Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society"
• An American Slave Market
• "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"
• Meeting in the African Church, Cincinnati, Ohio
• Letter to Garrison from Harriet Beecher Stowe
• The case of Mrs. Margaret Douglass
• Portrait of William Lloyd Garrison
• Anthony Burns notice
• Rendition of Anthony Burns
• Anthony Burns speaks
• Letter from Anthony Burns to the Baptist Church
• Pierce Butler's Philadelphia mansion
• "Free State Battery, 1856"
• Letter from Edward Bridgman
• Portrait of John Brown
• Portrait of Dred Scott
• Dred Scott case: the Supreme Court decision
• Lincoln's "House Divided" speech
• James Henry Hammond advocates slavery
• Harvesting the Rice
• "Harpers Ferry" headline
• John Brown Holds Hostage at Bay with Rifle
• Ride for Liberty -- Fugitive Slaves
• "What Became of the Slaves on a Georgia Plantation"
• Last words from John A. Copeland to family
• John Brown's address to the court
• The Slave Deck of the Bark "Wildfire"
• "Expulsion of Negroes and Abolitionists from Tremont Temple"
• Incident in Troy, New York
• The Hunted Slaves
• "War Begun" headline
• Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
• Slaves, Plantation of James Joyner Smith, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862
• Emancipation Proclamation
• Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation
• Company E, 4th United States Colored Infantry
• Retaliation in camp
• Portrait of Frederick Douglass
• Letter from Harriet Jacobs to Ednah Dow Cheney
• A Visit from the Old Mistress
• The Cotton Press
• Slave Caravans on the Road
• Slave Offered in the Market
• Slaves Left to Die
• Portrait of Harriet Tubman
• Ready for Harvest
• Diary of a Refugee
• "Diseases and Peculiarities of the Negro Race"
• Letter from Henry Tayloe on the domestic slave trade
• E. S. Abdy description of a Washington, D.C., slave pen
• H. E. Hayward and slave nurse Louisa
• George Fitzhugh advocates slavery
• A slave experience of being sold south




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