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,…
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…
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,…