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

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…

The photograph shows runaway slaves living as refugees at Camp Nelson during the Civil War. Several men in the photograph are in uniform. Camp Nelson in Jessamine County, Kentucky, was a Union supply base and training center during the Civil War.…

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

Entrance for African Americans at the Roxy Theatre, one of Atlanta’s movie palaces, in 1954.

June 14, 1827 letter from Colonel Philip Hickey to Joseph Watson regarding his personal doubts of the kidnapping, the distrust of southern planters for northerners, and his distaste for emancipation efforts. Hickey states that he did acquire a boy…

October 2, 1827 letter from Joseph Watson to Philip Hickey insisting he cooperate with the investigations into the kidnapped African American children. He asks that Hickey provide any information pertaining to the Pickards and describes the evidence…

January 26, 1828 letter from Joseph Watson to Duncan S. Walker and R. J. Walker regarding the case of the kidnapped African American children and noting that one child returned by Philip Hickey, Ephraim Lawrence, died days after his arrival in…

Cover page of a volume of published correspondence between Jean Pierre Boyer, the president of Haiti, and Loring Dewey, the president of the American Colonization Society, discussing emigration of African Americans to Haiti.

Legal document emancipating a 14-year-old “Negro slave girl named Betsey Simons”.