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Black History In The Us Collection

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Picking Cotton

Picking Cotton
African-American male and female workers pick cotton in the fields, circa 1900. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Poster For Uncle Toms Cabin

Poster For Uncle Toms Cabin
A poster advertising Harriet Beecher Stowes best-selling anti-slavery novel, Uncle Toms Cabin, written in 1852. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Soldiers Dispese Black Riots, VA, 1867

Soldiers Dispese Black Riots, VA, 1867
Illustration of soldiers dispersing a riot by Black people during the American Reconstruction period, Richmond, Virginia, 1867. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Buffalo Soldiers on mountain pass

Buffalo Soldiers on mountain pass
An engraving depicts the Buffalo Soldiers marching with mules down a narrow mountain pass, c. 1880. (Engraving by by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Kunta Kinte Island, formerly James Island, The Gambia

Kunta Kinte Island, formerly James Island, The Gambia
James island is situated about 30kms from the mouth of the Gambia River and was renamed Kunta Kinteh Island in 2011. It is less than two miles from Albreda on the rivers northern bank

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Beech tubing mill

Beech tubing mill
Antique illustration of a Beech tubing mill

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Engraving of Slave Escape, Mid-19th Century

Engraving of Slave Escape, Mid-19th Century
An engraving of a Black male slave fleeing from two Caucasian men on horseback during a slave-hunt, mid-19th century. (Engraving from Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Black Family In Horsedrawn Carriage, 1860s

Black Family In Horsedrawn Carriage, 1860s
Illustration of a Black family in a horsedrawn wagon traveling into Union territory during the American Civil War, 1860s. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Confederate Soldiers Threaten Churchgoers, TN, 1860s

Confederate Soldiers Threaten Churchgoers, TN, 1860s
Illustration of Confederate soldiers rounding up Black people in a church during the American Civil War, Nashville, Tennesee, 1860s. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Slaves Escaping To Union Territory, 1860s

Slaves Escaping To Union Territory, 1860s
Illustration depicting Black slaves in a covered wagon escaping into Union territory during the American Civil War, 1860s. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Uncle Toms Cabin Illustration

Uncle Toms Cabin Illustration
An illustration of an African-American slave from the novel Uncle Toms Cabin, by American novelist Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1852. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Sharecropper Plays The Banjo In The Field

Sharecropper Plays The Banjo In The Field
A group of African American farm workers gather around a worker sitting on a bale of cotton singing and playing banjo in a cotton field, Southern U.S. 19th Century

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Slaves Working On Sugar Plantation

Slaves Working On Sugar Plantation
Illustration of slaves working on a sugar plantation in the Southern United States, Mid-19th Century. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Slaves Forced To Work On Nashvillle Defenses

Slaves Forced To Work On Nashvillle Defenses
Illustration of American slaves being forced to work on Confederate fortifications during the American Civil War, Nashville, Tennessee, Mid-19th Century. (Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Waving From The Shore

Waving From The Shore
Slaves picking cotton along a river wave to a group of men who sits on bales as they ride a barge, mid-1800s. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Race Riots In Richmond, Virginia

Race Riots In Richmond, Virginia
Illustration depicting American soldiers dispersing crowds of Black people rioting in Richmond, Virginia during the American Reconstruction period, May 11, 1867

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Rice Plantation

Rice Plantation
Illustration of rice being shipped from a plantation on the Savannah river in Georgia circa 1850. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Rising Of The Afrite

Rising Of The Afrite
Illustration of the Rising of the Afrite from 1861. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Slaves Building Civil War Fortifications

Slaves Building Civil War Fortifications
Illustration of slaves being forced to work on the fortifications in Nashville, Tennessee during the American civil war circa 1864. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: A Prayer Meeting

A Prayer Meeting
Illustration of a a prayer meeting held in a contraband camp for escaped slaves in Washington D.C, in 1862. (Photo by Kean Collection/Getty Images)

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Panorama photo of Kunta Kinte Island, formerly James Island, The Gambia

Panorama photo of Kunta Kinte Island, formerly James Island, The Gambia
James island is situated about 30kms from the mouth of the Gambia River and was renamed Kunta Kinteh Island in 2011. It is less than two miles from Albreda on the rivers northern bank

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: James island (Kunta Kinte Island, Unesco world heritage), the Gambia

James island (Kunta Kinte Island, Unesco world heritage), the Gambia
Fort James and baobab trees on Kunta Kinteh island (formerly James Island). The island is situated about 30kms from the mouth of the Gambia River and was renamed Kunta Kinte Island in 2011

Background imageBlack History In The Us Collection: Jack Johnson

Jack Johnson
September 1911: Jack Johnson of the USA, one of the greatest yet most unpopular Heavyweight boxers of all time, on his way to court in Bow Street surrounded by a huge crowd


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