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List of Figures
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Figure 1.1. A storefront slave market in Atlanta. |
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Figure 1.2. William Lloyd Garrison, a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society and editor of The Liberator, the nation’s most prominent abolitionist publication. |
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Figure 1.3. A slave in Louisiana bears the marks of a lashing by his overseer. |
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Figure 1.4. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” |
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Figure 1.5. Painting of Dred Scott commissioned by a group of African American citizens and presented to the Missouri Historical Society in 1882. |
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Figure 2.1. President Lincoln and his cabinet review an early draft of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862. |
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Figure 2.2. Reconstruction was controversial both in the North and South. The Freedman’s Bureau, created to provide educational, employment, and health care assistance to former slaves, was a particular target of critics. |