SOUTHEN SLAVERY |
A cornshucking Library of Congress.jpg |
A flogging Library of Congress.jpg |
A former slave family outside their cabin during the 1870s in Florida. Courtesy Photographic Collection, Florida State, Archives.jpg |
A hog killing on farm of William Means's family, Houston County Courtesy of Georgia Department of Archives and History.jpg |
A slave sales receipt from Tallahassee, dated September 17, 1862 Tallahassee, located in Leon County and founded in the 1820s as Floridas c.jpg |
Abraham escaped from slavery and became the trusted adviser of the Seminole chief Micanopy. Florida State Archives.jpg |
Abraham or Abram Grant, who later served as a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, lived his childhood as a Columbia County slav.jpg |
An 1850s drawing of a Florida delegation consisting of Seminoles and Black Seminoles. Left to right Billy Bowlegs, florida state archives.jpg |
An antebellum Tallahassee street scene during the 1830s showing slaves in Middle Florida's plantation belt Some bond servants worked in the.jpg |
An artist's representation of John Horse, also called John Cavallo or Gopher John John Horse emerged florida state archivesi.jpg |
An early twentieth-century representation of blacks and Seminoles together in Florida. Courtesy Photographic Collection, Florida State Archiv.jpg |
Anderson and Ballard Brickyard, Macon Courtesy of Georgia Department of Archives and History.jpg |
Archaeologists discovered this handmade eighteenth century St Christopher's medal at the site of the Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose nea.jpg |
As was true of a number of the Tampa Bay area African American pioneers shown in this 1923 photograph, ties of family and place held many fre.jpg |
Ben Bruno, like Abraham, served the Seminoles as an interpreter. Where Abraham also advised the chief Micanopy, fl states archives.jpg |
Blount House, Jones County, built in 1847 Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress.jpg |
Commonly the assemblage of pots, bottles, and other material objects also marked black graves. Courtesy Photographic Collection, Florida Sta.jpg |
Corrie Davis, son of bond servant Rachel Davis and cattleman John Parker. Courtesy Canter Brown Jr.jpg |
Crawford County Courthouse, built in 1851 Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress.jpg |
Dorcas Bryant arrived in the Tampa Bay area during the mid 1850s from the vicinity of Albany, Georgia. With her came sons Aaron, Berry, Peter.jpg |
Ellen Craft in the disguise worn when she escaped from slavery Reprinted from Craft, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom.jpg |
Ells and Laney Grocery, Macon Courtesy of Georgia Department of Archives and History.jpg |
Florida cow man John Parker and his slave Rachel Davis This photograph is of Rachel's daughter, Eliza Davis Allen, who was born in Polk Coun.jpg |
Hoeing cotton, Jones County Courtesy of Georgia Department of Archives and History.jpg |
In addition to whipping intransigent slaves, many owners punished them by forcing them to sit or stand in stocks. The punishment cont.jpg |
In Florida, especially what became known as Middle Florida, cotton emerged as the cash crop of choice during the antebellum era. Its cultiva.jpg |
John Finlayson became one of the largest slaveholders in Middle Florida, holding 185 or more slaves by the early 1860s. Here is a receipt for.jpg |
Jones County Jail, built by Jacob Hutchings in 1842 Courtesy of Georgia Department of Archives and History.jpg |
Juan Garrido, a free African-born explorer, participated in the Indian wars in Hispaniola and accompanied Juan Ponce de Leon in the discovery.jpg |
Lewis Hicks, a slave of the Robert Hendry family, helped to pioneer today's Hardee County Courtesy Canter Brown Jr.jpg |
Log cabin in the forests of Georgia Library of Congress.jpg |
Material conditions for slaves varied from region to region in Florida and over time Enslaved blacks on Zephaniah Kingsley's Duval County es.jpg |
Most of Florida's enslaved blacks lived in log cabins of one sort or another The one shown here, although the photograph was taken a.jpg |
One of the most common forms of punishment for slaves in Florida was whipping. Here an overseer is attacking a woman with a paddle. Enslaved.jpg |
Onetime slave Creasy Lloyd of Narcoossee in Osceola County reportedly lived almost to one hundred years of age. Courtesy Photographic Collect.jpg |
Picking cotton, Jones County Courtesy of Georgia Department of Archives and History.jpg |
Robert Meacham, the mulatto son of Dr. Banks Meacham of Gadsden County, later distinguished himself as a public official and African Methodis.jpg |
Selina Rollins lived in the Alachua County Florda State Archives.jpg |
Slave apartment over outdoor kitchen, rear of Slade House, Macon, built ca. 1827 Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress.jpg |
Slave women often performed the same fieldwork as men, as evidenced by this photograph of a Leon County woman plowing with an ox during the.jpg |
Slaves played the banjo or fiddle at social gatherings of both whites and blacks. This tradition survived slavery, as indicated by the tunes .jpg |
Some slaves in all areas of Florida either received encouragement or otherwise were permitted to tend their own gardens. Aunt Aggie Jones of.jpg |
Some slaves maintained African names, as indicated in this 1842 Leon County sales advertisement. Courtesy Photographic Collection, Fl.jpg |
Sometimes horses, mules, or oxen were not available for plowing. In such cases, as suggested by this photograph taken after emancipation, sla.jpg |
Stella Meacham, wife of Robert Meacham. Courtesy Canter Brown Jr..jpg |
The free black village of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose sat two miles north of St. Augustine as late as 1763.jpg |
The process of cotton culture depended on slaves performing numerous chores, including gathering, ginning, packing, and shipping the crops. A.jpg |
The Reverend James Page became the first black ordained minister of Florida and the first pastor of the Bethel Missionary Baptist Church in T.jpg |
These four Hillsborough County pioneers had survived slavery and attained at least ninety years of age when this photograph was taken in 1923.jpg |
Thomas Warren Long escaped from Duval County to fight for freedom during the Civil War, preaching the gospel to fellow soldiers when he could.jpg |
Weaving white-oak baskets, Jones County Courtesy of Georgia Department of Archives and History.jpg |
William Blackstone Johnston House, Macon, completed in 1860 Courtesy of Georgia Department of Archives and History.jpg |