The Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress
Concord Massachusetts Children to Abraham Lincoln, April 1864 (Petition urging Lincoln to free all slave children)
Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress. Transcribed and Annotated by the Lincoln Studies Center, Knox College. Galesburg, Illinois.
Concord Massachusetts Children to Abraham Lincoln, April 1864 (Petition urging Lincoln to free all slave children)
Emancipation Proclamation (final version)
Washington: Government Printing Office,
January 1, 1863
Page 2
Rare Book & Special Collections Division
African American Odyssey
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Ho for Kansas! Brethren, Friends, & Fellow Citizens: I feel thankful to inform you that the real estate and Homestead Association, will leave here the 15th of April, 1878, In pursuit of Homes in the Southwestern Lands of America... .
CREATED/PUBLISHED
[between 1980 and 1990(?)]
SUMMARY
One of the many broadsides calling on southern African Americans to leave for Kansas.
NOTES
Historic American Buildings Survey.
Photograph of broadside from March 18, 1878.
SUBJECTS
Afro-Americans--Tennessee--1870-1880.
Afro-Americans--Kansas--1870-1880.
Internal migration--Tennessee--1870-1880.
Internal migration--Kansas--1870-1880.
Broadsides--1870-1880--Reproductions--1980-1990.
Photographic prints--1980-1990.
MEDIUM
1 photographic print.
CALL NUMBER
HABS FN-6 KS-49-14
REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-USZ62-120006 DLC (b&w film copy neg.)
PART OF
African American Odyssey
REPOSITORY
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.20540USA
DIGITAL ID
(b&w film copy neg.) cph3c20006
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The Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln's ProclamationThis print is based on David Gilmore Blythe's painting of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation. Blythe imagined the President in a cluttered study at work on the document near an open window draped with a flag. His left hand is placed on a Bible that rests on a copy of the Constitution in his lap. The scales of justice appear in the left corner, and a railsplitter's maul lies on the floor at Lincoln's feet. /
After David G. Blythe.
President Lincoln Writing the Proclamation of Freedom, January 1, 1863.
Cincinnati: Ehrgott and Forbriger, 1864.
Lithograph.
Prints and Photographs Division.
Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-1425 (4-22)
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Booker T. Washington Era | WWI-Post War | The Depression-WWII | Civil Rights Era |
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African American Population Distribution, 1890
Statistical Atlas of the United States Based on the Results of the Eleventh Census. Plate 11.
Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1898.
Lithograph.
Geography and Map Division. (5-18)
African American population distribution and migration patterns can be traced using maps published in the statistical atlases prepared by the U. S. Census Bureau for each decennial census from 1870 to 1920. The atlas for the 1890 census includes this map showing the percentage of "colored" to the total population for each county. Although the heaviest concentrations are overwhelmingly in Maryland, Virginia, and the southeastern states, there appear to be emerging concentrations in the northern urban areas (New York City, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Toledo, and Chicago), southern Ohio, central Missouri, eastern Kansas, and scattered areas in the West (Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, and California), reflecting migration patterns that began during Reconstruction.