Search, browse, and download digital documents related to slavery, abolition, and emancipation; includes broadsheets, letters, speeches, and photos.
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Digital Images is a collection of digital documents related to slavery, abolition, and emancipation. The collection includes abolitionist broadsheets, photographs by Matthew Brady, letters and speeches of President Lincoln and other presidents, and other historic letters, documents, and pictures.
The original documents are found in the Gilder Lehrman Collection of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. The digital images were made available through the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center.
Search and read Letters on American Slavery [1833] and Portraiture of Domestic Slavery [1817].
National Underground Railroad Freedom Center E-Books are two historical books on slavery, from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. These books are now housed in the OhioLINK Electronic Book Center:
Letters on American Slavery [1833], by John Rankin, 1793-1886.
A Portraiture of Domestic Slavery [1817], by Jesse Torrey, fl. 1787-1834.
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