Slavery documents

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Notice of Slave Sale 1863

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English Slave Ship (1830s)

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Reward notice for capturing runaway slave

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Advertisements: buying & selling people

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Receipts for VA state tax, including slave tax

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Freedom paper for Noah Powers (1811)

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Bill of Sale for three men ($4500)
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Slave Auctions
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Slave traders branding a woman

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Manumission certificate

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Picking cotton
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Slave traders transporting Africans for sale

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Slave population in Southern US (1861)