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- Certificate Verifying Solomon Salisbury's Status as a Free Man, April 27, 1811 -
- April 27, 1811
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Certificate Verifying Solomon Salisbury's Status as a Free Man, April 27, 1811
- Harper's Weekly, Volume 12, 1868 - <em>Harper's Weekly</em> began publishing in 1857. Published by Harper & Brothers, issues contained news articles, literary works, essays, and illustrations depicting life in America and around the world. <em> Harper's Weekly</em> ceased publication in 1916.
- January 1868-December 1868
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Harper's Weekly, Volume 12, 1868
Harper's Weekly began publishing in 1857. Published by Harper & Brothers, issues contained news articles, literary works, essays, and illustrations depicting life in America and around the world. Harper's Weekly ceased publication in 1916.
- Letter Written by Union Army Private Albert Manning from "Camp Foster," Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February 17, 1862 -
- February 17, 1862
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Letter Written by Union Army Private Albert Manning from "Camp Foster," Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February 17, 1862
- Freedman's Work Agreement Form, Virginia, 1865 -
- 1865
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Freedman's Work Agreement Form, Virginia, 1865
- Subject for Reconstruction, 1866-1868 - This ramshackle building housed freed people in Florida. The man and child sitting on the front step likely called it home. They raised chickens and protected them in a triangle coop in the yard and in nesting boxes on stilts under the shade tree (perhaps an orange tree). They faced an uncertain future as the national government sought equality while others opposed rights expansion for freedmen.
- 1866-1868
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Subject for Reconstruction, 1866-1868
This ramshackle building housed freed people in Florida. The man and child sitting on the front step likely called it home. They raised chickens and protected them in a triangle coop in the yard and in nesting boxes on stilts under the shade tree (perhaps an orange tree). They faced an uncertain future as the national government sought equality while others opposed rights expansion for freedmen.
- Clinton B. Fisk, circa 1874 - Clinton Bowen Fisk (1828-1890), photographed about the time President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him to the Board of Indian Commissioners in 1874, gained lasting recognition as the founder of Fisk University. He was an abolitionist, Civil War brigadier general, businessman, banker, and Freedmen Bureau official. He campaigned as the Prohibitionist Party candidate in the 1888 presidential election.
- circa 1874
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Clinton B. Fisk, circa 1874
Clinton Bowen Fisk (1828-1890), photographed about the time President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him to the Board of Indian Commissioners in 1874, gained lasting recognition as the founder of Fisk University. He was an abolitionist, Civil War brigadier general, businessman, banker, and Freedmen Bureau official. He campaigned as the Prohibitionist Party candidate in the 1888 presidential election.
- "All Rights for All!, A Song for the Times," 1868 -
- 1868
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"All Rights for All!, A Song for the Times," 1868
- Document Attesting to the Freedom of Solomon Salisbury, April 27, 1811 -
- April 27, 1811
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Document Attesting to the Freedom of Solomon Salisbury, April 27, 1811
- Portrait of Lieutenant Andrew Coats, 7th Colored Infantry Regiment, 1864 - Scottish-born Andrew Coats was a Lieutenant in the 7th U.S. Colored Infantry. The regiment, organized in September 1863, first deployed to the occupied coastal territories stretching from South Carolina to Florida. This photograph was taken after he arrived in 1864. Coats served as Acting Assistant Adjutant General (AAAG) for the District of Florida, before joining the Veteran Reserve Corps in late 1864.
- 1864
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Portrait of Lieutenant Andrew Coats, 7th Colored Infantry Regiment, 1864
Scottish-born Andrew Coats was a Lieutenant in the 7th U.S. Colored Infantry. The regiment, organized in September 1863, first deployed to the occupied coastal territories stretching from South Carolina to Florida. This photograph was taken after he arrived in 1864. Coats served as Acting Assistant Adjutant General (AAAG) for the District of Florida, before joining the Veteran Reserve Corps in late 1864.
- Mattox Family Home - Amos and Grace Mattox -- descended from enslaved African Americans -- raised their two children in this rural Georgia farmhouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Amos farmed, cut hair, made shoes, and preached at the local church, while Grace sewed, canned, cooked, and helped needy neighbors. Although life was hard, the family proudly affirmed that there was "always enough."
- 1930-1939
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Mattox Family Home
Amos and Grace Mattox -- descended from enslaved African Americans -- raised their two children in this rural Georgia farmhouse during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Amos farmed, cut hair, made shoes, and preached at the local church, while Grace sewed, canned, cooked, and helped needy neighbors. Although life was hard, the family proudly affirmed that there was "always enough."