Enslaved Africans being Carried to a Slave Ship, Gold Coast, late 17th cent., from Thomas Astley (ed.), A New General Collection of Voyages and Travels (London, 1745-47), vol. 2, plate 61. Source: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record. http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.html

A 1739 runaway slave advertisement from the Virginia Gazette(Source: Virginia Runaways. http://people.uvawise.edu/runaways/)

Benjamin Latrobe, “An Overseer Doing His Duty,” 1798. Source: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas.

http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/details.php?filename=NW0048

Thomas Jefferson

Southwestern expansion of slavery, 1790-1860: Source: Henretta et al., America’s History Vol 1: To 1877 (Bedford/St. Martin, 4th Ed., 2000), 293

George Bourne, Slavery Illustrated in Its Effects upon Women (1837)Source: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6726/

Status of slavery in the western territories Source: Henretta et al., America’s History Vol 1: To 1877 (Bedford/St. Martin, 4th Ed., 2000), 430

Cumberland Landing, Va. Group of "contrabands" at Foller's house, May 14, 1862. Source: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

Arlington, Va. Band of 107th U.S. Colored Infantry at Fort Corcoran, November 1865 Source: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/cwphtml/cwphome.html

Two views of Reconstruction: 1867 and 1874.Source: http://blackhistory.harpweek.com/

Fountain Hughes, ca. 1952. Source: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/vfssp.html#FountainHughes.html