Images

Portrait of Scottish poet William Drummond of Hawthornden (1585-1649), oil on panel by an unknown artist, 1612. Artwork photographed by Antonia Reeve. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.

An imagined conversation between William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson at the Mermaid Tavern, illustration from A book for Shakespeare plays and pageants by Orie Latham Hatcher, 1916.

Ben Jonson (1572-1637), English poet and playwright who flourished during the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, oil on panel copy of an original painting by Abraham van Blijenberch, c. 1617. National Portrait Gallery, London.

Fort Gaines on Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA. After the escaped slave Wallace Turnage found freedom at the Union Fort Powell, he was taken to nearby Fort Gaines and was employed as a cook by the officer Julius Turner. Photograph by Altairisfar...

A locomotive crossing the Niagara Suspension Bridge over the Niagara River. Anna Maria Weems was safe after she crossed over the Niagara River into Canada. Image by William England, 1859.

Price & Birch Slave Traders, Alexandria, Virginia, photographed by Andrew J. Russell, c. 1861-1865. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Anna Maria Weems disguised as "Joe Wright" escaping slavery in Maryland in 1855. Illustration from page 183 of an 1872 edition of The Underground Railroad by William Still.

Rosalind Tutoring Orlando in the Ceremony of Marriage in William Shakespeare's As You Like It, Act IV Scene I, oil on canvas by Walter Howell Deverell, c. 1853 Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery.

The god Hymen marries the four couples at the end of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy As You Like It (1599), drawing by Thomas Stothard, late 18th or early 19th century. Folger Shakespeare Library.

Rosalind, the protagonist of William Shakespeare's romantic comedy As You Like It (1599), watercolors by Henry J. Haley, early 20th century. Folger Shakespeare Library.