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Some Exhibits to Come – Three Centuries Of Enslavement

Harriet Tubman, "The Conductor," with fugitive slaves in Underground Railroad station

Bibliography – Three Centuries of Enslavement

A 1859 Slave Auction in Savannah, as Reported by the New York Tribune

How Slavery Became the Law of the Land “For Blacks Only”

Frederick Douglass: “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro”

The Scourged Back: This slave named Gordon ran for 80 miles to join the Union Forces in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in March 1863. This famous photo of the welts on his badly "scourged back" was taken while he was being fitted for a uniform.

The Scourged Back: How Runaway Slave and Soldier Private Gordon Changed History

"Contrabands": During the Civil War, thousands of slaves escaped their owners in the South by getting to Union Army camps. Thus freed, many continued on to settle in the North.

The Freedmen of Wisconsin

This woodcut, published in 1831 with a story about the Southampton Rebellion, was titled "Horrific Massacre in Virginia."

Nat Turner’s Rebellion: Horrific or Heroic?

Map of the world showing which countries that traffic in humans to the U.S.; map shows how individual countries comply with anti-trafficking laws. The Kansas City Star 2009<p>

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Traces of the Trade: The North’s Complicity in Slavery

A man stands in front of the Djingareyber mosque on February 4, 2016 in Timbuktu, central Mali.
Mali's fabled city of Timbuktu on February 4 celebrated the recovery of its historic mausoleums, destroyed during an Islamist takeover of northern Mali in 2012 and rebuilt thanks to UN cultural agency UNESCO.
TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY SEBASTIEN RIEUSSEC / AFP / SÉBASTIEN RIEUSSEC

African Peoples Before Captivity

Shackles from Slave Ship Henrietta Marie

Kidnapped: The Middle Passage

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