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Sketch of an Allegory of the Abolition of Slavery
Anonymous, French School, 19th Century
ca. 1848
Chessgame: Liberty versus Slavery
Alfred Van Loen
not dated
French Liberty – British Slavery
James Gillray
December 21, 1792
French Liberty – British Slavery
James Gillray
December 21, 1792
Study For Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, or The Genius of America Encouraging the Emancipation of the Blacks
Samuel Jennings
ca. 1791–92
Bust-Length Study of a Man
François-Auguste Biard
1848
The Last Moments of John Brown
Thomas Hovenden
1882–84
Dressing for the Carnival
Winslow Homer
1877
Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers, who sit around a well dividing up the coins
Pietro Monaco
1730–39
Joseph being sold into slavery by his brothers, who sit around a well dividing up the coins
Pietro Monaco
1730–39
Love Fleeing Slavery
Dianne Blell
1983
Storage jar
Dave (later recorded as David Drake)
1858
Frederick Douglass
Unknown
ca. 1855
Jewish Woman of Algiers
Charles-Henri-Joseph Cordier
1862
The Gulf Stream
Winslow Homer
1899; reworked by 1906
Anti-Slavery Medallion
William Hackwood
1770–1800
Abolitionist Jug
British, probably Stafforshire or Sunderland
ca. 1820
Emancipation of the Negroes – The Past and the Future (from "Harper's Weekly")
Thomas Nast
January 24, 1863
[Detail of Abolitionists from "The Conflict Over Slavery" Panel of Diego Rivera's Mural for the New Worker's School, New York City]
Walker Evans
July–August 1933
[Detail of "The Conflict Over Slavery" Panel of Diego Rivera's Mural for the New Worker's School, New York City]
Walker Evans
July–August 1933
[Detail of "The Conflict Over Slavery" Panel of Diego Rivera's Mural for the New Worker's School, New York City]
Walker Evans
July–August 1933
[Detail of "The Conflict Over Slavery" Panel of Diego Rivera's Mural for the New Worker's School, New York City]
Walker Evans
July–August 1933
[Detail of Abolitionists from "The Conflict Over Slavery" Panel of Diego Rivera's Mural for the New Worker's School, New York City]
Walker Evans
July–August 1933
["The Conflict Over Slavery" Panel of Diego Rivera's Mural for the New Worker's School, New York City]
Walker Evans
July–August 1933
[Detail of "The Conflict Over Slavery" Panel of Diego Rivera's Mural for the New Worker's School, New York City]
Walker Evans
July–August 1933
Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia
Andrew Joseph Russell
1863
Old Slave Huts. The Hermitage, Savannah, Ga.
1900s–1930s
A History of the Amistad Captives: Being a Circumstantial Account of the Capture of the Spanish Schooner Amistad, by the Africans on Board; Their Voyage, and Capture near Long Island, New York; with Biographical Sketches of Each of the Surviving Africans.
John Warner Barber
1840
Contrabands Aboard U.S. Ship Vermont, Port Royal, South Carolina
Henry P. Moore
1861
The Slave Market, Atlanta, Georgia
1864
Figure of an Enslaved African Man
Giuseppe Piamontini
late 18th century
Slave Pen, Alexandria, Virginia
Brady & Co.
1862
[Row of Brick Slave Cabins at Hermitage Plantation, Near Savannah, Georgia]
Walker Evans
1935
The Freedman
John Quincy Adams Ward
1863, cast 1891
On to Liberty
Theodor Kaufmann
1867
The Story of Joseph
Biagio d'Antonio
Preparing for Christmas (Plucking Turkeys)
Francis William Edmonds
1851
French Liberty – British Slavery
James Gillray
December 21, 1792
Dish with Joseph and His Brothers
Antoine Conrade
ca. 1630–45
Wilson, Branded Slave from New Orleans
Charles Paxson
1863