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1 poster: 10 x 14 in; Black ink on off-white cardstock

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manuscript; 4.875 x 7.125 in; one of two leaves

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manuscript; 6 x 9 in; one of two leaves

The Jackson Wagon Sun Flower Band: As they appeared at the Great Fairs of 1884
Chromolithograph print showing six African-American men who made up The Jackson Wagon Sun Flower Band, dressed in striped shirts and bib-pants which are decorated with sunflowers and wagon wheels. At upper left is a color portrait of E. A. Webster,…

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The Locust Grove Plantation Ledger contains the names, marriages, births, and deaths of enslaved peoples on a plantation which internal evidence suggests was Locust Grove Plantation in Jefferson County, Mississippi. Ledger also contains cotton…

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George Moses Horton was born into slavery on William Horton’s North Carolina tobacco plantation circa 1797. As a young man, he taught himself to read and developed a life-long interest in poetry. Around 1815 he began composing poems in his head,…

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Digitized from the 10-inch, 78rpm disc released as Columbia A2803, Matrix 46131.

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Census schedule for Mero, Hamilton, and Washington districts of Tennessee.

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Page one of volume one of the Emancipator, printed in Jonesborough, Tennessee, in 1820. This image comes from the 1932 reprint by B. H. Murphy.

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Handwritten entries into a ledger documenting work at the McCalley Plantation.
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