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Underground Railroad

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Titlesort icon Related People Date Object Number
Antislavery token
1838
INV.13745
Basket
ca. 1820-1830
1945.381
Ceremonial New York City street sign for Frederick Douglass Landing
2005
2006.25
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
Creative: Tronvig Group