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The Rapalje Children
1768
1946.201
Oil on canvas
Artist/Maker: John Durand

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Underground Railroad

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"John Brown" pike
ca. 1857-1859
INV.5736
Antislavery token
1838
INV.13745
Basket
ca. 1820-1830
1945.381
Ceremonial New York City street sign for Frederick Douglass Landing
2005
2006.25
Coverlet
1984
2001.25
Dred Scott (ca. 1795-1858)
After 1857
X.174
Figural group
ca. 1855
1945.390
Frances Wright (1795-1852)
1824
1955.263
Frederick Douglass [seated portrait]
PR.011.2
Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia
1888
1914.11
General David Hunter (1802-1886) on Horseback
c. 1864
1904.10
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
1887
1937.35
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
1864
PR.011.5
John Brown (1800-1859)
ca. 1855-1860
1916.2
John Brown's Blessing
1867
1939.250
Lantern
1750-1800
1941.444
Memorial Plaque to Reverend Peter Williams, St. Philip's Protestant Church, New York City
1880
1917.20
Mrs. Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1786-1851)
ca. 1825
1920.5
Pepper box
ca. 1730
1976.32ab
Peter Williams (1750-1823)
ca. 1810-15
X.173
Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1766-1853)
ca. 1825
1920.4
Pitcher
1817
1928.23a
Pitchers (pair)
1817
1928.23ab
Plate
ca. 1946
2000.217
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
ca. 1875
1950.213
Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman
ca. 1869
LIB.CT.T8855.B7
Slave shackles
ca. 1866
1921.20
Sojourner Truth Monument
1999
2007.13
Swing Low: A Harriet Tubman memorial
2007
2009.34
The Fugitive's Story
September 7, 1869
1936.630
The Game of Tight Rope
1870
2000.723
The Slave Auction
1859
1928.28
Thoughts of the Future (Thoughts of Liberia, Emancipation)
1861
S-200
Uncle Tom and Eva
ca. 1860-1900
1945.391
Uncle Tom and Eva
ca. 1860-1900
1945.392
Uncle Tom's Cabin [card game with box and 20 cards]
1852
LIB.YC.1852.Uncle
William Leete Stone, Sr. (1792-1844)
ca. 1825-1830
1949.38
William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879)
n.d.
1954.161
Wounded Scout, A Friend In the Swamp
1864
1936.655
Creative: Tronvig Group