American Freedmen, ancestors

American Freedmen, youth

American Freedwomen

American Freedwoman & colonial children.

American Freedwoman

Harlem, American Freedmen, youth

American Freedman

Anna Murry Douglass, the wife of Frederick Douglass that helped lead him to his own freedom

Frederick Douglass & his daughter Annie

“Pennsylvania. Photographs from the ‘Rural African Americans of the Allegheny Mountains’ collection (circa 1900-1910) via the Meyersdale Public Library”

“Husband & wife” Detroit, MI, Gordon Parks, 1950″

“Pennsylvania. Photographs from the ‘Rural African Americans of the Allegheny Mountains’ collection (circa 1900-1910) via the Meyersdale Public Library”

“George William Commodore served in the U.S. Navy to preserve the nation and abolish slavery during the Civil War. r, c. 1865-1867.”