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Browse 14,897 authentic slavery in america stock photos, high-res images, and pictures, or explore additional slaves or black slaves stock images to find the right photo at the right size and resolution for your project.
The antebellum photograph, believed to date back to the 1850s, is the oldest-known image of enslaved people with cotton, the commodity that they were forced to harvest.
Photography was an important tool for documenting the atrocities of slavery and advocating for its abolition. Civil War photographers like James F. Gibson took pictures of formerly enslaved people who had crossed into Union territory (called “contraband” during the war).
Browse 3,519 authentic african american slaves stock photos, high-res images, and pictures, or explore additional slavery or african american history stock images to find the right photo at the right size and resolution for your project.
The images in Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery before c. 1900. Our growing collection currently has over 1,200 images.
More than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of formerly enslaved people are available online. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers’ Project (FWP) of the Works Progress Administration, later renamed Work Projects Administration (WPA).
View a sample of the historical slavery images archive collated by Anti-Slavery International, and find out how to license images for use.