These pictures were incredible. I want to know their stories.
Photos Of 1850s-1880s Black America
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Amerikan Melanin
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These are the people that didnt give up and die so that all of us could have a better life. These are the people that we need to get reparations for, they are owed. I think about this often when I feel like I'm having a bad day.
AlwaysLurkin
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They looked so hopeless and defeated...like a never ending nightmare
HopeKillCure
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Where all the blonde weave atMr.Big Meat McGee
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Honestly I would've tried to run away to Jamaica, Haiti or Canada if I was a slave.
I hate seeing these pictures, but they're important.
cole phelps
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slaves washing clothes
These powerful images should be inspiring us as a people to reach greater heights instead of just wasting away......
cole phelps
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inked title below Group of darkies, Slave Quarters, Hutchins Island, Sav River with group of slaves outside row of buildings
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A pair of former Slaves, photographed after their escape
Slave Children
Cudjo Lewis (1841–1935) is considered the last survivor of the last slave ship to enter the United States. He was born around 1841 to a Yoruba family in the Banté region of Dahomey (today Benin). At age 14, he began his training as a soldier & was inducted into oro, the Yoruba secret male society; by age 19, he was undergoing initiation. His initiation training was cut short, however, in the spring of 1860 when soldiers from Dahomey raided his town, killing townspeople & taking prisoners
cole phelps
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Wilson Chinn, a sixty year old former slave was branded on the forehead with his owner's initials, 'V. B. M.' Chinn is wearing a contraption and irons designed to prevent slave escapes. At lower left is a slave paddle. Ca. 1864.
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Slave in South Carolina (1862)
ex-slave
Young Slave During Civil War
ralph lauren
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Two of my great, great, great, great-grandmothers. Born as slaves:
