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1. AASLAV_220620_001.JPG: "There is no Spaniard who dares to stick his head in the hatch without becoming ill... So great is the stench, the crowding and the misery of the place... Most arrive turned into skeletons." -- Alonzo de Sandoval, 1627
2. AASLAV_220620_012.JPG: "Their singing... [was] always in tears, in so much that one captain... threatened one of the women with a flogging, because the mournfulness of her song was too painful for his feelings." -- William Corbett, 1806
3. AASLAV_220620_015.JPG: Ship Full of Sorrow Tens of thousands of slave ships traversed the Atlantic carrying human cargo to an uncertain future. Enslaved people rebelled on one in ten voyages. Rather than endure the horrors of enslavement, many jumped into the shark-infested waters. An elderly enslaved man stated "the iron entered into our souls," as he described the rattling shackles that ripped off the skin of captive Africans.
4. AASLAV_220620_024.JPG: Timber of the Sao Jose Iron Ballast from the Sao Jose "The lonesomeness of the stench and crying together, I became so sick and low... I now wished for the last friend, Death, to relieve me." -- Olaudah Equiano, 1789
5. AASLAV_220620_028.JPG: "We had about 12 negroes did wilfully drown themselves, and others starv'd themselves to death; for 'tis their belief that when they die they return home to their own country and friends." -- Captain Thomas Phillips of the Hannibal, ca 1694
6. AASLAV_220620_042.JPG: The Sae Jose The Recovery of the Sao Jose
7. AASLAV_220620_062.JPG: "Left Lisbon on 27 April 1794, destined for Mozambique to fetch a cargo of slaves and then set sail for Marronhas in Brazil." -- Western Cape Archives, South Africa
8. AASLAV_220620_073.JPG: Holding on to Humanity
9. AASLAV_220620_078.JPG: Adult Middle Passage Shackles
10. AASLAV_220620_081.JPG: Child Middle Passage Shackles
11. AASLAV_220620_087.JPG: Amulet in the Shape of Shackles
12. AASLAV_220620_094.JPG: "with... apparent eagerness a black woman seized some dirt from off an African yam, and put it into her mouth, seeming to rejoice at the opportunity of possessing some of her native earth." -- Alexander Falconbridge, 1788
13. AASLAV_220620_097.JPG: "Embarked our Blacks, 60 males, as many large men as children, 40 women with 4 or 5 small infants at the breast." -- Monsieur La Lande Boulon Menard, 1723
14. AASLAV_220620_126.JPG: Runaway Broadside Against great odds, enslaved African Americans escaped. They ran to family, to friends, or north to freedom. A runaway risked brutal punishment and retribution against loved ones left behind.
15. AASLAV_220620_135.JPG: Enslaved African Muslims in America
16. AASLAV_220620_142.JPG: The Fancy Girl Trade, 1835
17. AASLAV_220620_147.JPG: A Sheriff's Sale of Five Enslaved Persons, 1839
18. AASLAV_220620_153.JPG: Mortgaged and Sold
19. AASLAV_220620_159.JPG: Will of Sarah B. Preston, 1847
20. AASLAV_220620_164.JPG: An Inhospitable Trade
21. AASLAV_220620_168.JPG: Jefferson, "One negro BOY, Aged 25 or twenty-six years"
22. AASLAV_220620_172.JPG: Bill of Sale, 1832
23. AASLAV_220620_180.JPG: Rhoda Philips (ca 1831-1906)
24. AASLAV_220620_194.JPG: Amistad Rebellion
25. AASLAV_220620_198.JPG: Brick from the Whitehead Plantation: Turner claimed that God called on him to "slay my enemies with their own weapons." He took the life of Margaret Whitehead during his rebellion.
26. AASLAV_220620_205.JPG: News of Turner's Rebellion Word spread from Maine to Mississippi. In response, state laws tightly restricted black life across the nation.
27. AASLAV_220620_210.JPG: Reflection on Nat Turner's Rebellion Nat Turner, an enslaved minister, used his intellect and mobility as a preacher to organize a slave revolt in Southampton, Virginia, in 1831. Turner's rebellion caused widespread panic among the white population. As a result, more severe restrictions were instituted limiting enslaved persons from gathering and practicing their faith. This letter written by Eleanor Weaver to her children provides some details of the event that gained nationwide attention. All the mischief done was confined to one county in the lower part of this state the County of Southampton. There was about 67 persons old & young put to death by about Eight or Ten Negroes ring leaders & some few they forced to assist them. say some 20 to thirty headed by a Negro preacher. All the murders was done in about 24 hours. They have all bin [sic] taken & put to death General Nat the preacher absconded & kept out of the way for several weeks but he was at last taken & put to death. We hope our government will take some steps to put down Negro preachi9ng. It is those large assemblies of Negroes causes the mischief. However I wish we had not one in this country they are an unhappy race & render all those that have them unhappy. However we have them & we must do the best we can with them.
28. AASLAV_220620_215.JPG: Narcisse Prud'homme's Cotton Bale Stencil, Louisiana
29. AASLAV_220620_223.JPG: Solomon Northup's Escape Solomon Northup wrote a letter to his family as he awaited sale on the New Orleans docks. Closely watched, he was unable to send the letter until 12 years later when his literacy helped free him. This ledger records how lawyer John Waddill helped secure Northup's freedom in 1853. It also records his work on other cases involving enslaved persons.
30. AASLAV_220620_231.JPG: Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave, 1853
31. AASLAV_220620_243.JPG: Hannah A. Lions's School Copy Book, 1831
32. AASLAV_220620_256.JPG: Ambrotype, c 1855-1860 An African American man holds a white child who is his responsibility, and whose family owns him.
33. AASLAV_220620_277.JPG: Elizabeth Keckley, Activist Seamstress Elizabeth Keckley, born in 1818 in Virginia, was an enslaved seamstress. Keckley purchased freedom for her son George and herself in 1855. She then moved to Washington DC and became the personal dressmaker and confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. She was also a philanthropist and activist devoted to the cause of freedom.
34. AASLAV_220620_282.JPG: Abraham Lincoln's Presidential Inkwell
35. AASLAV_220620_294.JPG: Frederick Douglass's Cane
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Description of Subject Matter: Slavery and Freedom
September 24, 2016 – Indefinitely
As the centerpiece of the museum, this exhibition explores the complex story of slavery and freedom, a story standing at the core of our national experience. Beginning in the 15th century with the transatlantic slave trade, through the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation, the exhibition uses personal stories to explore the economic and political legacies of slavery for all Americans.
Priceless objects featured include:
* Harriett Tubman’s shawl and hymn book (c. 1876)
* Nat Turner’s bible (1830s)
* shackles used for an enslaved child
* a slave cabin from Edisto Island, S.C.
* a pocket copy of the Emancipation Proclamation read from by soldiers bringing news of freedom to the U.S. Colored Troops
* freedom papers (c. 1852) carried by a former slave, Joseph Trammell
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