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Snake jug
1871
1906.6ab
Stoneware
Depicted: Thomas Nast

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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
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
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
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