"The Charleston Slave Market"
Slave trade, Eyre Crowe, Charleston
Engraving of slave auction
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910)
With Thackeray in America.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons
1893
Library of Virginia
Work is Public Domain; image from Library of Virginia
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Engraving
14_0412_006.JPG
Charleston
"The Emancipation Celebration. Line of March—Opinion of our Citizens"
African Americans, emancipation, celebrations
A few days before holding an Emancipation Proclamation celebration in October 1890, Richmond residents debated what should be the proper date for commemorating the abolition of slavery.
<em>Richmond Planet</em>, October 11, 1890
<em>Richmond Planet</em>
October 11, 1890
Library of Virginia
CC BY-SA
JPG
Newspaper
Emancipation Celebration_Richmond Planet_10-11-1890.jpg, Richmond Planet_10-11-1890_transcription.pdf
Richmond, Virginia
<em>Remaking Virginia: Transformation Through Emancipation</em> gallery exhbition
July 2, 2015
<em>Remaking Virginia: Transformation Through Emancipation</em> gallery exhibition
July 2, 2015
A Catalogue of Anti-Slavery publications in America (title page)
Slave trade, abolitionism
Abolitionist Samuel May Jr, the compiler, sent this copy to fellow abolitionist Lysander Spooner with a note that “give me additions to this catalogue, or corrections of it, I shall be much obliged.”
Samuel May Jr., comp.
New York: American Anti-Slavery Society
1864
Library of Virginia
cc by-sa
Bound volume
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A Spring Scene Near Richmond, Virginia
African Americans, labor
After slavery, African Americans controlled their own labor and by the end of the nineteenth century more African Americans owned their own farms in Virginia than in any other state.
William Ludwell Sheppard
<em>Harper's Weekly</em>, May 21, 1870
Harper and Brothers
1870
Library of Virginia
CC BY-SA
JPG
Engraving
14_0479_002
Richmond, Virginia
Admissions and Course of Study, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute
African Americans, education
Founded in 1868, Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute educated and trained hundreds of African Americans to be teachers. Although African Americans had been denied the opportunity for education during slavery, Hampton required its students (ages 14-25) to be able to read, write, and know arithmetic through long division to qualify for admission. During their three-year course of study, students took classes in grammar, rhetoric, composition, arithmetic, algebra, geometry, bookkeeping, geography, United States history and government, and the natural sciences, as well as agriculture and household industries.
<em>Catalogue of the Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, Hampton, VA., for the Academic Year 1870-71</em> (1871), 12-14.
Boston: T.R. Marvin & Son
1870-1871
Library of Virginia
CC BY-SA
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Books
15_1075_019, 15_1075_020, 15_1075_021
Hampton, Virginia
Advertisements for Slave Traders
1850s
cc by-sa
10_1095_002 Pulliam Davis ad.JPG
10_1095_001 Levy ad.JPG
14_0976_001 Davis.JPG
14_0976_002 Pulliam Betts CD.JPG
African M. E. Church and Parsonage, Portsmouth
African Americans, religion
African American Methodists in Portsmouth constructed their own church in 1857. The building was used by escaping slaves as part of the Underground Railroad. Required by Virginia law to have a white minister, the congregation called its first African American pastor, Rev. James A. Handy, in 1864. In 1871 the congregation affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church and became known as the Emanuel A.M.E. Church.
A. M. Turner
Edward Pollock, comp., <em>Sketch Book of Portsmouth, Va., Its People and its Trade</em> (Portsmouth, 1886), 157.
Portsmouth, Va.: Edward Pollock
Library of Virginia
CC BY-SA
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Engraving
15_1075_014
Portsmouth, Virginia
After the Sale: Slaves Going South
Slave trade, Eyre Crowe
Groups of enslaved people being sent south
Eyre Crowe (1824-1910)
1854
Courtesy of Chicago History Museum
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Oil on canvas
Crowe After the Sale CHM.jpg
Richmond