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Aaron Dupuy was Henry Clay’s personal body slave and the husband of Charlotte Dupuy, who filed a freedom suit against Clay in 1829. Charlotte lost her suit, but was freed by Clay in 1840. Aaron was most likely freed following the death of Henry Clay…

Lithograph of Cheapside, the largest slave market in the state of Kentucky until the slave trade was outlawed in 1864.

Convicts leased from Fulton County provided free labor to the public improvement projects on Historic Grant Field the oldest...

Tintype image of two slave girls given to Harriet Pindar of Savannah, Georgia, upon her marriage to Joseph Mooney. Verso: "Two slave girls given Aunt Harriet by her mother when she married."

Broadside announcing the Fugitive Slave Bill of 1850. Passed by the Senate and House of Representatives and signed into law by President Millard Fillmore, the Fugitive Slave Act gave slave owners greater power in capturing runaway slaves, even those…

African-American Soldiers’ Pension Application Ledger for African-American troops who served the U.S. Army and Navy during the Civil War from the New Bern, N.C. area and Eastern North Carolina. The military units, ships, and actions in which these…

Tintype photograph of Silvia, a freed slave formerly belonging to Whitfield Grady of Lenoir County, N.C. Date approximated.

In this letter, Mary Tunstall writes from Danville, Va., to her husband, William P. Tunstall in Richmond, Va., acknowledging receipt of a female enslaved child, who apparently Mr. Tunstall sent his wife as a gift.

Two convicts in prison uniforms at hard labor, sawing a log, at the prison farm near Dallas, Georgia, circa 1940.

Convicts in prison uniforms at hard labor, tilling a field, at a prison work farm near Dallas, Georgia, circa 1940.