Cotton Bales Grown by Free Negroes

This photograph was taken by Harry Hamilton Johnston in Tuskeegee, Alabama. It shows what is probably hundreds of cotton bales that were grown and collected by freed Blacks and are being prepared for transport to England. This image was taken in 1910, which was...
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...