The Slave Trade: Senegal
House of Slaves, Goree Island, Senegal, where they kept people before they were sent to the New World.
Photos, Marlen S. Bodden |
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The Slave Trade: Alabama
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Slave Auction
1850-1859
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Slave Auction in Montgomery, AL
1840-1859
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
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| Cotton & Steamboats |
"Foot of the Shoot: Receiving the Cotton-Bales on Board the Steamer," May, 1861
From the pier, the bales are being loaded onto the steamboat "Magnolia" on the Alabama River. From the Illustrated London News.
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
"Cotton-Shoot on the Alabama," May, 1861
Loading cotton onto the steamboat "Magnolia" on the Alabama River. The cotton bales are delivered to the pier through a long chute. From the Illustrated London News.
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Loading cotton onto the steamboat "Magnolia" on the Alabama River. The cotton bales are delivered to the pier through a long chute. From Ballou's Pictorial Drawing-Room Companion, May 1861
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Interior of a steamboat on the Tombigbee River
1880-1910
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Steamboat "Tinsie Moore" docked in Montgomery, Alabama
1892
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Unloading cotton from the steamboat "City of Knoxville" at Decatur, Alabama
1880-1889
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Steamboat Alabama loading or unloading cotton
1890-1910
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
"Slaves Shipping Cotton by Torch Light - River Alabama."
1840-1870
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
| Alabama Faces |
"Two sunny smiles in Sylacauga, Alabama."
1930s - 1941 circa
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Maria Fearing, a former slave from Sumter County, Alabama, served as a Presbyterian missionary to the Congo in Africa, photo: 1880-1889
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Unidentified African American woman, 1870-1890
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
African American woman standing with a white woman in a cotton field
1890-1920
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Three African American children in front of a cabin
1890-1920
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
"Aunt Dora Queen" a midwife in Eufaula, Alabama
1930s-1941
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Jorena Pettway, Gee's Bend, AL, 1939
Sorting peas inside her smokehouse with many fruits and vegetables which she canned.
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
George Harris of Barbour County, AL, 1930s-1941
Harris was a "Jack of all trades" working as a brick mason, carpenter, and painter.
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
African American man in a field, 1911
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
African American woman with three children and a dog
1890-1920
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
African American man and children standing in a cotton field, 1890-1920
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Four African American children sitting on a fence
1890-1920
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
African American woman holding turkey
1890-1920
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
African American man in an ox-drawn cart
1890-1920
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
African American woman sweeping a yard
1890-1920
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Git up dar buck, 1890-1910
African American woman with a pair of oxen hitched to a plow.
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Chantilly Plantation in Mount Meigs, Alabama
1890-1910
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
African American man with cotton bales in Selma, Alabama, 1890-1910
The man's pants are covered with cotton.
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
African Americans dressed for church, standing in front of a cabin in Selma, Alabama
1890-1910
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Winter Cantey (age 85) and his wife (age 83) in Fort Mitchell, AL, former slaves of General Cantey, 1900-1920
Winter served as his master's bodyguard in both the Mexican War and the Civil War.
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
African Americans working in a field in Lowndes County, Alabama, 1939
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
Lithograph postcard of African Americans standing in a cotton field
1930s - 1941 circa
photo: Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery, Alabama |
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