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This image group features portraits of Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano, who all learned to read and write while they were enslaved. Each used their gifts to help end slavery.

These images show how enslavers used chains as a way to take freedom away from enslaved people. This text contains sensitive images that may not be suitable for all students.

The nameplate includes three distinct pictures—left, center and right—and a banner in addition to the title of the newspaper. The pictures emphasize the humanity of enslaved persons and the injustice of slavery yet the hope for emancipation. The nameplate relies on Christian themes to encourage the abolition of slavery.

These images show two couples getting married using a custom called “jumping the broom.”

These images were published in a pro-slavery book in 1915. The author published images of formerly enslaved people who continued to live with their enslavers after the Civil War to argue that they were loyal to their enslavers.