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The Indian: The Dying Chief Contemplating the Progress of Civilization
1856
1875.4
White marble and wood
Artist/Maker: Thomas Crawford

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Frederick Douglass [seated portrait]
PR.011.2
Lantern
1750-1800
1941.444
Pitchers (pair)
1817
1928.23ab
Pitcher
1817
1928.23a
Frances Wright (1795-1852)
1824
1955.263
Antislavery token
1838
INV.13745
Uncle Tom's Cabin [card game with box and 20 cards]
1852
LIB.YC.1852.Uncle
The Slave Auction
1859
1928.28
Thoughts of the Future (Thoughts of Liberia, Emancipation)
1861
S-200
Wounded Scout, A Friend In the Swamp
1864
1936.655
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
1864
PR.011.5
John Brown's Blessing
1867
1939.250
The Game of Tight Rope
1870
2000.723
Memorial Plaque to Reverend Peter Williams, St. Philip's Protestant Church, New York City
1880
1917.20
Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
1887
1937.35
Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia
1888
1914.11
Coverlet
1984
2001.25
Sojourner Truth Monument
1999
2007.13
Ceremonial New York City street sign for Frederick Douglass Landing
2005
2006.25
Swing Low: A Harriet Tubman memorial
2007
2009.34
Dred Scott (ca. 1795-1858)
After 1857
X.174
General David Hunter (1802-1886) on Horseback
c. 1864
1904.10
Pepper box
ca. 1730
1976.32ab
Peter Williams (1750-1823)
ca. 1810-15
X.173
Basket
ca. 1820-1830
1945.381