Free Black Neighborhoods Post-Emancipation
with Carla L. Peterson
Take a closer look at how free Black communities evolved after the Emancipation Proclamation and the Reconstruction Amendments.
Free Black Organizations and Institutions
with Carla L. Peterson
Learn how free Black people established mutual aid societies and other institutions.
The Economic Impact of Slavery in the US
with Seth Rockman
Take a closer look at how the system of slavery pervaded American economic markets.
The Pervasive Institution of Slavery in the US
with Seth Rockman
Learn how the system of slavery extended across the American labor system, and how African Americans worked to reclaim their labor.
The Evolution of the Underground Railroad
with Christopher Bonner
Learn more about how the Underground Railroad operated and how the term for this means of escape from bondage emerged.
Doctor Cuffee Saunders
1781
Read about how Cuffee Wells Saunders gained his freedom.
Civil War “Contrabands”
1861–1865
View two photographs of self-emancipated people described as “contrabands” of the Union Army during the Civil War.
Emancipation on Indigenous Lands
with Jeffrey Kerr-Ritchie
Learn more about the reach of the Thirteenth Amendment in American Indian nations.
Narrative and Photograph of Omar Ibn Said
ca. 1850
Learn more about the capture and enslavement of African people through this photograph and narrative.
The Great Dismal Swamp
with Marcus P. Nevius
Learn why this region of Virginia and North Carolina became fertile ground for maroon communities.
“Preamble and Articles of Association of Free African Society”
1787
Explore the founding document of Philadelphia's Free African Society, only the second Black mutual aid society in the country.
Preamble to “A Sermon on the Capture of Lord Cornwallis”
1782
Read the dedication that introduces this sermon, the first recorded use of the term “African American.”
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