Porto Rico

Porto Rico

The historical piece that I chose is called Porto Rico [San Juan]. This piece is part of the N. Phelps Stokes Collection of American Historical Prints in the New York Public Library Digital Collections. This still image was issued in 1671 and touches on some...
A mother’s anguish

A mother’s anguish

The article from the Anti-Slavery Almanac that was published in 1837, A mother’s anguish, details how a woman who was a slave ended up killing her children as they were going to be shipped off to slavery. The mother did not want her children to experience what she...