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Bill of sale for William, sold by Thomas G. James to E.J. Kent in Natchez. This bill of sale is unusual because it is pre-printed; most bills of sale were hand-written. Natchez, home of the infamous Forks of Road market for enslaved persons, was…

Booker T. Washington autograph note: “I ask only an equal
chance in the world for the Negro.” / Booker T. Washington /
Tuskegee, Alabama / April 9, 1902.

Pamphlet published by a Howard University professor arguing for the value of higher education for African Americans and the need to make it an aim of philanthropy.

Hester Jane Carr, born in 1816 in Accomack County, Va., to free parents, moved to New York City in 1835, and found work as a house servant. In 1836, she met a woman from Columbus, Georgia, who offered Hester work as a "waiting maid." During their…

Pamphlet advertising the Central Barber Shop in Edenton, North Carolina from the late 19th or early 20th century. The Central Barber Shop was owned by Josephine Napolean Leary, an African American businesswoman, from Edenton.

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

recto, handwritten in ink: No. 10 / No. 10 / Contrabands as they appear / for admission to Federal Lines / Baton Rouge Louisiana 1863 / Contrabands-verso, handwritten in ink: Contrabands as / they appear for / admission to Federal / Lines / Baton…

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

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

Convicts breaking rock, at unidentified location in Georgia, 1934.