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Vintage engraving shows a crowd of African men, women, and children who had been rescued by the British navy from a slaving vessel in 1884. Two British sailors from the HMS Undine are seen in the background. Although the slave trade was abolished in many countries during the 19th century, slave trading continued in other countries.

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Juneteenth holiday or June Teenth commemorating the end of slavery as a Social justice concept or Emancipation Day representing freedom and equal rights celebration in a 3D illustration style.

African slaves arrive in Rhode Island in Colonial America. Illustration published in The New Eclectic History of the United States by M. E. Thalheimer (American Book Company; New York, Cincinnati, and Chicago) in 1881 and 1890. Copyright expired; artwork is in Public Domain.

Vintage illustration features The Underground Railroad, a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada. The painting shows a large family of black slaves, fugitives from the south, being sheltered from the snow by Levi Coffin and his wife. The Quaker family helping the slaves details two common stereotypes about the underground railroad: helpless slaves and their heroic Quaker saviors.

Vintage illustration shows a group of four black men, possibly freedmen, ambushed by a posse of six armed whites in a cornfield. The Fugitive Slave Act passed by Congress in September 1850 allowed slave-hunters to seize alleged fugitive slaves without due process of law and prohibited anyone from aiding escaped fugitives or obstructing their recovery. The law threatened the safety of all blacks, slave and free, and forced many Northerners to become more defiant in their support of fugitives.

"Am I not a man and a brother?" An iconic anti-slavery illustration based upon the medallion produced by Josiah Wedgwood in 1787 as an important contribution to the movement for the Abolition of Slavery. (From "The Family Friend" published by S.W. Partridge & Co., London, 1875.) The abhorrent business of trading in slaves was outlawed in Britain in 1807.

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