Photographers:
Connections:

Slavery, abolition and civil rights


 
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Contents

United States of America
1Slavery in America
2Southworth and Hawes: The Branded Hand of Captain Jonathan Walker
3Cotton
4Joseph T. Zealy: African American slaves
5The scourged back
6Abolitionists
7Emancipated slaves in the USA
Brazil
8Slavery in Brazil
9Marc Ferrez: Coffee production in Brazil

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