Description: Illustration of the Emancipation Statue located in Boston, Massachusetts. Sculpted by Thomas Ball, this statue shows Abraham Lincoln with the Emancipation Proclimation in one hand, and the other hand reaching over the head of a male African American, a newly freed slave. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_SC22
Subjects: Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Civil rights; Slavery; Emancipation of slaves; Emancipation proclamation; African American men
Places: Boston (Massachusetts)
 

Description: Illustration of the emancipation of United States slaves. Caption reads: "Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by John Sowle, in the clerk's office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts." ALTERNATIVE TEXT: A woman stands in the middle of a scene, and she holds a scroll in her left hand. She wears a billowing dress and a tiara with five stars on the front. In her right arm is a bouquet of leaves. To the woman's right is an African American man kneeling while holding up an American flag on a pole. The top of the flag pole has an eagle affixed to it. He has fabric draped over his knee. There is what looks to be a cannon behind him. To the woman's left is an African American woman who is kneeling, similarly to the man in the scene. She wears a wrap on her head and is surrounded and covered by the fabric of the American flag. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_SC20_1
Subjects: Emancipation of slaves; Slavery
 

Description: Sheet music for "On Emancipation Day," a song written by Ohio poet Paul Laurence Dunbar and composer Will Marion Cook. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_OVS20
Subjects: Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906; African American men; African American poets; Emancipation of slaves; Slavery; Musicians; Music
Places: Dayton (Ohio); Montgomery County (Ohio)
 

Description: Illustration of a meeting held by the Union and Emancipation Society at Exeter Hall in London, England, published in Harper's Weekly. The Union and Emancipation Society was an anti-slavery, pro-Union organization in England that supported the Union and the abolitionist movement in the United States during the Civil War. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_OVS25A-D_006
Subjects: Abolition; Civil War 1861-1865; Emancipation of slaves; Slavery
Places: London (England)
 

Description: Illustration of a newly freed slave from "The Black Phalanx: A History of the Negro Soldiers of the United States in the Wars of 1775-1812, 1861-'65" by Joseph T. Wilson. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: blackphalanx_46
Subjects: Slavery; African American men; Emancipation of slaves
 

Description: Portrait of Thomas Brown, Hallie Q. Brown's father. This image is found in a small wooden frame. Hallie Q. Brown was the daughter of freed slaves Thomas and Frances Jane who were actively involved with the Underground Railroad. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Wilberforce University and later became Dean of Women at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Brown helped found the National Association of Colored Women (NACW), was elected Secretary of Education of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1900 and served as the 7th National President of the NACW. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_MSS5_B08F08_B
Subjects: Brown, Hallie Q. (Hallie Quinn), d. 1949; African American women; African American Educators; Wilberforce University; Tuskegee Institute; Religion in Ohio; African American men; Slavery; Emancipation of slaves
 

Description: This portrait shows an elderly James Madison Bell, of Gallipolis, Ohio, wearing formal attire. Born April 3, 1826, Bell was a poet, orator and anti-slavery activist, and a free man of color whose poetry was dedicated to abolition. He lived briefly in Chatham, Ontario, Canada, a significant stop on the Underground Railroad, before moving to California where some of his poems were published in The Pacific Appeal, an African American newspaper in San Fransisco. In 1901, he published 27 of his poems in a book: "The Poetical Works of James Madison Bell." This print originally appeared in his book. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05169
Subjects: Bell, James Madison, 1826-1902; Emancipation of slaves; Abolitionists; Underground Railroad; Civil rights; African American men; Slavery
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio); California