Slavery in America
Elderly women in attendance at a 1916 convention of former slaves in Washington, D.C.
Octoroon by Louisa Picquet • Tales of Southern Slave Life
Truly a most magnificent picture. If I remeber rightly, this cdv photograph sold last year for over $600 (US). A very rare picture of a beautiful young girl on the chair, who is being looked aft…
2 января 2010
A very rare picture of a beautiful young girl on the chair, who is being looked after by a nursemaid who only appears to be about 10years old herself. This picture compells you to wonder about both their lives. How they lived, and what they did together.
Slaves Waiting for Sale - Richmond, Virginia. 1853. Artist - Crowe.
Slave nurse, Patty Atavis, with white child in her care, Alice Lee Whitridge, from Baltimore, MD. About 5% of US slaves were in urban areas. These were often domestic slaves, mostly women. Atavis remained with the Whitridge family after abolition.
Urban slaves at auction
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Beaufort, South Carolina. Several generations of a slave family, all born on the plantation of J.J. Smith. Taken in 1862 by Timothy O'Sullivan.
Slave children, including white children. Demonstrating the doctrine of Partus Sequitur Ventrem. In other words, whatever the mother's status is, the child's status is. Even when the father is a white free man, the child is a slave if the mother is.
In 1863 and 1864, eight former slaves toured the northern states to raise money for impoverished African-American schools in New Orleans; four children with mixed-race ancestry and pale complexions...
Isaac & Rosa, slave children from New Orleans, 1871.
These 3 girls were part of a group of former slaves from New Orleans sent to the North on a publicity tour to raise money for schools that served former slaves run by abolitionist groups after the Union Army occupied much of Louisiana in 1863, and to arouse the sympathy of countrymen who were preoccupied by war, and ambivalent on the issue of slavery. One of the major reasons for the great success of this campaign was that four of the children were of mixed race, but looked white.
Harriet Tubman with slaves she helped rescue during the American Civil War, ca. 1885. (Date of photo given by Catherine Clinton, source of photo is New York Times.) Left to right: Harriet Tubman; Gertie Davis {Watson} (adopted daughter of Tubman} behind Tubman; Nelson Davis (husband and 8th USCT veteran); Lee Cheney (great-great-niece); “Pop” {John} Alexander; Walter Green; Blind “Aunty” Sarah Parker; Dora Stewart (great-niece and granddaughter of Tubman’s brother Robert Ross aka John Stewart).
1860 Slaves on a S.C. Plantation
Pictured are Isaac White and Rosina Downs. They both were slave children in New Orleans, and were emancipated in 1864 when General Butler took New Orleans.
slave brands
photos of slaves being punished. Photos by Fabrice Monteiro. ...The slave who dared to speak a bit to his master suffered the punishment of the Iron Mask. Similarly, during the harvest of sugarcane, iron masks were put on hungry and thirsty slaves to prevent them from tasting or eating the cane.
From 1857
Announcement for an 1855 slave auction in Kentucky.
Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana, 1863.
Flora Stewart, who had her portrait taken the year before her death in 1868, was a house slave in New Hampshire during the Revolutionary War.
~ Little Sarah Rector, a former slave, became one of the richest little girls in America in 1914. Rector had been born among the Creek Indians, as a descendant of slaves. As a result of an earlier land treaty from the government. Back in 1887, the government awarded the Creek minors children 160 acres of land, which passed to Rector after her parents' deaths. Though her land was thought to be useless, oil was discovered in its depths in 1914, when she was just 10 years old
The Truth About Hair and Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long-this is so interesting!(:
Trugannini 1866 - the last full-blooded Tasmanian aboriginie
William Lanne, the last full-blooded Tasmanian Aborigine man
Education: This is one of the most shameful factual events in American history. Ota Benga The Congolese Pygmy Man in the Bronx Zoo. The exhibit was supposedly intended to promote the concept of human evolution, eugenics and scientific racism. He later worked in a tobacco factory & started planning to go back to Africa. 1914 WW I broke out, a return to the Congo became impossible. Benga at 32 was depressed,3-20-1916 he built a ceremonial fire and shot himself in the heart with a stolen pistol.
African American Family, c. 1880 Credit: National Museum of American History Vintage African American photography courtesy of Black History Album, The Way We Were.
Elegant African American Couple, 1910.
IT’S A FAMILY AFFAIR | THE BLACK VICTORIANS Proud Black Man & His Daughter, 1890s
3 Sisters
Black man with white child and dog
One of the most unexpected Nineteenth Century stories you'll hear today.
Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies, photographed by Camille Silvy, 1862 Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies was a child born into a royal West African dynasty. She was orphaned in 1848, when her parents were killed in a slave-hunting war. She was around five years old. In 1850, Sarah was taken to England and presented to Queen Victoria as a “gift” from the King of Dahomey. She became the queen’s goddaughter and a celebrity known for her "extra" ordinary intelligence.
Sara Forbes Bonetta. Brighton, 1862. A young West African slave child rescued by a sea captain and given as a gift to Queen Victoria.
Black Beauty | The Black Victorians | 1890s Credit: University of Kentucky, Sallie B. Price (1874-1962), photographer. Black History Album, The Way We Were
Black Victoriana - FIERCE!
Black Victorian Woman
Sara Forbes Bonetta. Brighton, 1862. The black victorians. Unseen photos.
Lady Sarah Forbes Bonetta Davies (photographed by Camille Silvy, 1862) She was born into a royal West African dynasty, and was orphaned in 1848, when she was around five years old, when her parents were killed in a slave-hunting war. In 1850, Sarah was taken to England and presented to Queen Victoria as a “gift” from the King of Dahomey. She became the queen’s goddaughter and a celebrity known for her extraordinary intelligence. She spent her life between the British royal household and her ...
CLARK GABLE The original “tall, dark and handsome” actor didn’t hide his Black and Native American heritage. And when he saw “colored” and “white” bathrooms on the set of Gone With The Wind, he refused to continue working until all of the cast members were treated equally.
Is Mrs. Obama the first black First Lady? Which US bill features a black man? You'll be surprised at the historical figures you didn't know were black
Portrait of Afro-Peruvian girl circa 1868: The blood of Africa runs deep through-out Mexico, North, Central and South American countries and the Caribbean basin
The black Victorians: astonishing portraits unseen for 120 years From the African Choir posing like Vogue models to an Abyssinian prince adopted by an explorer, a new exhibition spotlights the first black people ever photographed in Britain Hidden histories: the first black people photographed in Britain – in pictures via The Guardian
Hidden histories: the first black people photographed in Britain – Eleanor Xiniwe of the African Choir, 1891.
Aida Overton Walker - First female Black entertainment superstar of the 1890's
Aida Overton Walker
One of the most feared of all London's street gangs in the late 1880's was a group of female toughs known as the Clockwork Oranges. They would later inspire Anthony Burgess' most notorious novel. Один из самых страшных из всех лондонских уличных банд в конце 1880-х была группа женщин-бандиты, известные как "заводные апельсины". Они позже вдохновит Энтони Берджесс' наиболее известный роман.
Portrait of An African American Girl Taken Between 1870 and 1900
Gorgeous little girl in amazing Victorian / Edwardian dress Photo credit listed as "African American Girl, Half-Length Portrait, with Right Hand to Cheek, with Illustrated Book on Table." 1899 or 1900. W.E.B. Du Bois Albums of Photographs of African Americans in Georgia Exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900, now in Library of Congress.
African American c.1890