Search Results for: African American

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	Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger B, Vol. 3 1751-1757 L00.084 Storekeeper (Elijah Williams) accounts with Abijah Prince. This is a page from the account book of Deerfield, Massachusetts, storekeeper Elijah Williams (1712-1771) that includes purchases and payments from the free black man, Abijah Prince.
	Account Book of Elijah Williams, Ledger C, Vol. 4 1755-1759 L00.085 Storekeeper (Elijah Williams) accounts with Abijah Prince. This is a page from the account book of Elijah Williams (1712-1771) describing the purchases and payments of Abijah Prince (b.c.1715), a free black in Deerfield, Massachusetts, in the years 1756 and 1757.
	Mary: Lamson family servant c. 1867 2000.19.22.01 African American women like Mary experienced only limited economic opportunity after the Civil War.
	"Negroes waiting at the depot" 1856-1858 1994.20.03.24 George Fuller of Deerfield, Massachusetts, made this sketch, "Negroes Waiting at the depot," in Mobile, Alabama in 1857.
	"Ellis, Field hand" 1856-1858 1994.20.03.33 George Fuller drew "Ellis, Field Hand" on his travels through the slave states in the 1850s.
	"Our page, Harry" 1858 1994.20.03.48 George Fuller (1822-1884) of Deerfield, Massachusetts, sketched "Our Page Harry" while working in the Deep South as an itinerant portrait painter in the 1850s.
	African-American woman sewing 1856-1858 1994.20.03.54 Like his other drawings of slave and southern plantation life, this interior sketch of slave quarters by George Fuller (1822-1884) of Deerfield, Massachusetts, carefully details the spaces in which slaves worked and lived.
	"Negro Funeral" 1856-1858 1994.20.03.55 George Fuller drew this sketch after witnessing an African American funeral procession in March, 1858.
	"Learning By Doing At Hampton" 1900 L01.005 Boarding schools like the Hampton Institute sought not merely to educate but also to indoctrinate young Native and African American students in the values and customs of white society.
	"Negro Nurse with a Child" 1861 1995.14.02 This painting by George Fuller of a child having her hair combed by her African American "nurse" was undoubtedly a product of Fuller's travels in the South just before the Civil War.

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