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Public Domain (NPS) Camp Nelson, Kentucky Camp Nelson started as a Union supply depot in 1863 along the Kentucky River. The military base soon...
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Public Domain (NPS) Camp Nelson, Kentucky Camp Nelson started as a Union supply depot in 1863 along the Kentucky River. The military base soon...
Wikimedia Commons/Unknown authorUnknown author Blind Tom’s White House Performance Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins made history in 1860 as the first Black American o play...
Wikimedia Commons/Unknown photographer, from Historic sketches of the South by Emma Langdon Roche, publisher: New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1914. The Clotilda Timothy Meaher...
Wikimedia Commons/Ser Amantio di Nicolao The Slave Pen of 1820s Alexandria, Virginia A brick building at 1315 Duke Street in Alexandria once housed America’s...
Shutterstock The African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan, New York From the late 1600s to 1794, a 6.6-acre plot in Lower Manhattan served as...
Wikimedia Commons/Scan by NYPL The 1831 Nat Turner Rebellion in Virginia Nat Turner was born in 1800 in Southampton County, Virginia. He learned to...
Shutterstock The Old Slave Mart in Charleston, South Carolina Charleston became a major center for buying and selling enslaved people after the U.S. banned...
Shutterstock The Kingsley Plantation Zephaniah Kingsley bought 13-year-old Anna Madgigine Jai at a slave auction in Havana, Cuba in 1806. Kingsley, 41, worked as...
Flickr/tormentor4555 The USS Constellation’s Anti-Slavery Patrols The USS Constellation splashed into the water at Gosport Navy Yard in Virginia on August 26, 1854. This...
Shutterstock The Weeping Time Pierce Butler sold 436 enslaved people at Ten Broeck Race Course in Savannah, Georgia on March 2-3, 1859. Rain fell...