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Olaudah Equiano (Gustavus Vassa), bought his freedom 1766, published memoir 1786

The Library Company of Philadelphia, 318 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19102

Unidentified English artist, "Olaudah Equiano," c. 1780

Copyright The Royal Albert Museum, Queen St, Exeter EX4 3RX Devon, England, UK. All rights reserved.

Gravestone, Mercy Buliod, Common Burying Ground (for African Americans), Newport, RI, 1771, mother with wings and baby

Copyright holder unknown. In Allan Ludwig, "Graven Images: New England Stonecarving and Its Symbols, 1650-1815" (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1966), plate 113a

Tombstone of New England slave John Jack, who bought his own freedom, died 1773; an abolitionist epitaph

Copyright holder unknown. The Old Hill Burying Ground, Concord, MA

"The Gallant Charge of the 54th Mass. (Colored) Regiment," Currier and Ives, 1863

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-7824.

Whites setting fire to Negro school, illustration, 1839.

Anti-Slavery Almanac, 1839. In Dwight L. Dumond, Antislavery, 1961, p. 213. 8.6.4

White mobs on a rampage attacking a building. Anti-black violence, pre-Civil War.

The Anti-Slavery Record, No. 21, c. 1836. In Dwight L. Dumond, Antislavery, 1961, p. 217. 8.6.4

Ca-P02-b2 "York (Olim Toronto), Upper Canada." 1803. Watercolor by Edward Walsh, Surgeon, 49th Regiment, British Army.

Toronto Culture Division, Market Gallery Art Collection, S St Lawrence Market, 95 Front St E, 2nd Fl, Toronto, ON M5E 1C2 CANADA. Also, The William L. Clements Collection, University of Michigan, 909 S University Ave, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1190.

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