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These images show some of the many African Americans who fought or worked for the Union Army in the Civil War.

These images show how different people reacted to the end of the Civil War and the abolition of slavery.

Article 1, Section 9 of the U.S. Constitution, the first clause of which restrains congressional powers with respect to the trade in enslaved persons.

Beneath a heading and series of details about the coming auction, the poster describes the 18 enslaved persons to be sold in varying degrees of detail. It identifies the age of each of these persons and offers other details.

In his cartoon, Thomas W. Strong turns southern arguments in favor of slavery against the South. He creates an anti-secessionist message by depicting South Carolina as an enslaved woman (likely a reference to Topsey from Uncle Tom’s Cabin) incapable of making her own decisions.

These sections illustrate the ways in which the U.S. Constitution provided indirect protection of slavery.

Wheatley’s letter explains her reasoning for emancipation using the rhetoric of the American Revolution and Biblical references.

Written in 1900, this text presents the views of a former enslaver about the value of slavery for those enslaved.