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Enslaved persons - Emancipation

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  • Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).
  • Freetown, Sierra Leone: African men wearing loincloths are pulling the carriage of a European man holding a rod. Lithograph, 1830.
  • Liberation of Jewish slaves: a woman and a young man embrace a bearded man dressed in robes, others travel on the road with camels. Engraving by C.H. Jeens after H. Le Jeune, 1847.
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    Freetown, Sierra Leone: African men wearing loincloths are pulling the carriage of a European man holding a rod. Lithograph, 1830.

    | Date: Decr. 12th 1830 | Reference: 37921i
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    Doctoring freedom : the politics of African-American medical care, 1840-1910 / by Margaret Geneva Long.

    Long, Gretchen. | Date: 2004
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    Colonization and its discontents : emancipation, emigration, and antislavery in antebellum Pennsylvania / Beverly C. Tomek.

    Tomek, Beverly C. | Date: [2011], ©2011
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    Henry Brougham is praised by black ex-slaves for his part in their liberation, but criticized by children factory employees, on whom he turns his back. Lithograph by H.H. (Henry Heath).

    Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850. | Date: Pub'd May 26th [1832?] | Reference: 669498i
    Part of: Political sketches by H.H.
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    Liberation of Jewish slaves: a woman and a young man embrace a bearded man dressed in robes, others travel on the road with camels. Engraving by C.H. Jeens after H. Le Jeune, 1847.

    Le Jeune, Henry, 1819-1904. | Date: 1860 | Reference: 37891i
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