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This photo shows a group of workers picking cotton on a seemingly endless cotton field. A notable aspect of this picture would be the wide age range of workers. The picture shows children and adults picking cotton. Interestingly enough, no visible…

This photograph is of workers who are working in the Delta post-emancipation period. The photo is showing them doing day labor. On Hopson Plantation cotton choppers were hired for seventy-five cents to one dollar a day and trucked to the plantation.…

The workers are being forced to pick cotton, which is grueling and hard because of sharp thorns, very hot days, little water, and little food. They are carrying massive buckets of cotton. They would often have to fill up x number of buckets before…

This photo from 1970 depicts a religious community in Russia about a little over a century after the end of serfdom. The photo is interesting because it shows the livelihoods of the people in this community and it also shows the people themselves…

Tsar Alexander II is the person in the middle of the crowd wearing a white and red coat. In his hand, he is holding the emancipation manifesto that he released in 1861. Surrounding him are Russian serfs who have just been liberated, and landowners…

This item, “The North Star,” was an anti-slavery newspaper published December 1, 1848, 17 years before slavery was officially abolished in the U.S. It was edited and published by Frederick Douglass. The paper’s subtitle “Right is of no sex - The…

The listed image is from Princeton Library created by Thomas Nast on January 12, 1867 published in New York. This image vividly illustrates the unequal dynamics between whites and blacks in the United States during slavery and after. In the drawing…

The photograph shown here is of a shack-like building in a village outside of Moscow called Bakshandino. Someone can be seen carrying water on their shoulder. This person looks to be a pre-teen girl, but it is difficult to be sure due to the quality…

These are the descendants of former slaves of the Pettway Plantation. The plantation’s location was in Gees Bend, Alabama, but now the house is abandoned. The plantation was initially named after the first recorded white resident of the area, Joseph…

Two African American women on a cotton farm stopping for a moment, reflecting on their experiences and thinking about what their lives have become. Their facial expressions portray their feelings greatly. The woman to the left seems weary and sad…