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This spiritual illustrates the relationship between Christian allusions and imagery with the desire for freedom from enslavement.

King writes to inquire about the availability and price of certain categories of enslaved persons in Charleston, South Carolina. King also makes some general comments about the state of the economy in Milledgeville.

The poster describes each of the four formerly enslaved persons—two male and two female. It also lays out the grounds for the reward, offering $1000 for the capture of all four as well as smaller rewards for the capture of any of the four formerly enslaved persons individually.

This poem illustrates the ways Horton saw slavery imprisoning both his body and mind.

This spiritual illustrates how enslaved people saw the Civil War through the lens of Christian imagery.

Lincoln’s letter to Alexander H. Stephens states his desire to prevent slavery’s spread and not threaten it where it already existed. This speaks to the centrality of slavery as a cause of the Civil War.

This is a political cartoon satirizing the secession of South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana in an attempt to show the disunity of the new Confederacy.

This advertisement, published in the Southwestern Christian Advocate in 1883, was included in the "Lost Friends" section of the newspaper. Advertisements like this were published after emancipation by African Americans seeking their relatives. Families of enslaved people were often separated during enslavement. Here, Fanny Ward seeks information about her family, which was separated during slavery.