![Item #8326 [Photograph of a youth gospel group at practice.]. Anonymous photographer](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8326_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1692305641)
A captivating image of a youth gospel group of the mid-twentieth century, apparently showing them at practice with the church pianist—a typical scene out of the fertile musical tradition of the Black church. This evocative photo, seemingly taken in a church music room, shows a woman seated at the pianoforte.....
![Item #8926 [Manuscript notice regarding the ownership of three escaped and captured slaves.]....](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8926_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1722442036)
An unusual notice penned by a Virginia slave owner announcing his claim over three slaves—named and likely a family—evidently held by a slave catcher/thief who was refusing to release them. The notice reads in full:This is to Certify that I have in my Possession three negroes viz Anderson Lucinda &.....
A rare and anonymously-produced political cartoon attacking Henry Clay’s duplicitous position on slavery, the issue that was at the fulcrum of so many political, moral, and legal conflicts in antebellum America. Clay, at the time a Senator from Kentucky and one of the country’s most popular politicians, grew infamous for.....
An unpublished Trail of Tears related editorial letter defending both the War Department and a government contractor, Glasgow, Harrison & Co., a firm later found to have withheld or overcharged for provisions intended for the various migrating native peoples. In 1832 Congress created a commission to oversee the removal of.....