Seeds of Civil War
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Slave Market of America, 1836 broadside
The American Anti-slavery Society in 1836 published this broadside condemning the sale and keeping of slaves in the District of Columbia.
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The American Declaration of Independence Illustrated, c1861 print
A freed slave and a white man proclaiming “Break every Yoke; let the oppressed go free,” circa 1861.
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Am I not a man and a brother?
A woodcut image of a “supplicant male slave in chains.” The broadside publication is of John Greenleaf Whittier’s antislavery poem, “Our Countrymen in Chains,” 1837.
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The Triumph
A large, elaborate allegory predicting the triumph of the Union over the dark forces of the Confederacy and “King Cotton,” circa 1861.
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