The Bulls and Bears in Gold: William Street, in front of the Hole in the Wall, New York'. Albumen print. Stereoscopic card by E & H T Anthony of New...
Group of escaped slaves that gathered on the former plantation of Confederate General Thomas Drayton. After Federal troops occupied the plantation...
Group of slaves outside their quarters on a plantation on Cockspur Island, Georgia. | Location: Cockspur Island, Georgia, Confederate States of...
Black preacher addressing his mixed congregation on a plantation in South Carolina. Original Artwork: Drawing - M Jackson
Former Slaves, mainly Females and Children in their Government Quarters, Female Seminary in Baton Rouge, Louisiana circa 1863.
Group of freed slaves gather on the plantation of Confederate general Thomas F. Drayton in Hilton Head, South Carolina, during the Union occupation...
Engraved illustration depicting two members of the Klu Klux Klan, wearing hoods and holding weapons, circa 1860.
Midland Railway works in progress at Old St Pancras near King's Cross, London. Original Publication: Illustrated London News
Gordon, also known as "Whipped Peter", a former enslaved man, shows his scarred back at a medical examination, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 2nd April...
Group of Slaves leaving to Work in the Field on James Hopkinson's Plantation in Edisto Island, New Hampshire circa 1862 by H.P Moore.
Albumen printed stereocard, photography by EH and TC Anthony, showing a stereoscopic view of Broadway on a rainy day. Since the 1890s Broadway has...
Emancipation' by Thomas Nast . Nast's celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War. Nast envisions a somewhat...
The Freedmen's bureau, started by the Republicans, was the Federal Governments first big venture into relief. The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and...
African-American slaves working on Whitney's cotton gin as white men observe behind them, 1869. From the New York Public Library. .
Portrait of Civil War 'contrabands,' fugitive slaves who were emancipated upon reaching the North, sitting outside a house, possible in Freedman's...
When James Hopkinson, owner of a plantation on Edisto Island, left South Carolina in 1862, he left behind over fifty slaves United States,...
Engagement between Spanish troops and people of the island of Santo Domingo, in the pass of Monte Christi, 1864. The Spanish annexed their former...
Edward and Alexandra , the Prince and Princess of Wales with their three children, including Prince Albert Victor , Duke of Clarence and Prince...
The 16th American president, Abraham Lincoln , sitting and leafing through documents, Washington, D.C.
Recruitment poster soliciting Black soldiers to fight for the Union army in the American Civil War, with signatures including that of Frederick...
Engraving depicting African American enslaved workers, loading cotton on to a barge on the Mississippi river, USA, 1865.
Union soldiers lay wounded awaiting treatment at a Union field hospital, at Savage Station, Virginia, USA, circa 1861. .
The United States Capitol Building under construction, viewed from Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC, USA, 1860. .
Engraving of large group of black people being addressed by group of white and black soldiers holding the American Flag circa 1863, Caption...
Engraving showing formerly enslaved Black people learning to read with white teachers in school circa 1860. .
Christmas Entertainment to the Inmates of the Greenwich Union-House, England, United Kingdom, illustration from the magazine The Illustrated London...
Caravan, United States of America, drawing from The City of the Saints, among the Mormons and across the Rocky Mountains to California by Richard...
