by Kailah Harris | May 2, 2022
The image depicted is titled The Road to Liberty: A Station on the Underground Railroad, and it was published sometime between the years 1800-1809, by unknown artists. This artwork depicts the challenges that so many strong and daring individuals, both free (Whites)...
by Tamara Wijesinghe | May 2, 2022
Slavery began in the early 1600s and was not abolished until 1865 when the Thirteenth Amendment was included as part of the United States Constitution. Slavery can be defined as when people are taken from their homes against their will and sold as property. Those who...
by Craig Smith | May 2, 2022
The American Revolution provided a false hope for those of enslaved men and women. The author of the constitution, Thomas Jefferson, had wrote about the communal agreement of liberty and justice for all. In these words, many implications fell victim to the lack of...
by Kerry Ryan | May 2, 2022
Done in 1849, this lithography piece was created by James S. Baillie in New York City. The color print shows Tom “Young America” Hyer, a native from New York, and James “Yankee” Sullivan, an immigrant from Ireland bare knuckle boxing in a ring. The two fighters are...
by Natalie Heim | May 2, 2022
Drafted in New York in 1848, this “Declaration of Sentiments” provided by the Library of Congress highlights the growing interests during the nineteenth century in the women’s movement for suffrage as well as the reformation of society’s denial of women having rights...