1. Slaves rescued by H.M.S. Philomel, April 1893 Date: April 1893 Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
2. The deep south : this scene typifies pre-war plantation life, in a non-mechanized age, slaves were vital to an economy based on cotton production, the plantation owners were the country's aristocrats Creator: Gettysburg Souvenir Center, Inc. (Gettysburg, Pa.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
3. The deep south : this scene typifies pre-war plantation life, in a non-mechanized age, slaves were vital to an economy based on cotton production, the plantation owners were the country's aristocrats Creator: Gettysburg Souvenir Center, Inc. (Gettysburg, Pa.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
4. Emancipation proclamation : this proclamation, issued Jan. 1, 1863, declared that the slaves in the secessionist states should be free because those states had not returned to the Union by that date, here a Union officer is telling slaves in a rebel state that they are now free Creator: Civil War Souvenir Center (Gettysburg, Pa.) Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
5. Here lies Poor Samboo : the gravestone of Poor Samboo Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required
6. An old African slave, Nassau, N.P., Bahamas Creator: Sands, J. O. Date: unknown Format: Still image Access: Log In Required