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A photograph taken in July 1942 showing the aftermath of the Siege of Sevastopol in 1941-2 during the Second World War (1939-45). The port in the Crimea was captured by Axis forces in July 1942. The vehicle is a German Sdkfz 250 half-track...

Former slaves and abolitionists Ellen and William Craft, as pictured in The Liberator, the abolitionist newspaper.

Ellen Craft (l. 1826-1891) in her disguise as a Southern gentleman during the 1848 flight to freedom of Ellen and her husband William Craft (l. 1824-1900). The original image appeared as the frontspiece to their Running a Thousand Miles For...

Title page of Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Frontspiece to Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773, by the artist Scipio Moorhead (active 1773-1775). Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

View of Bermuda from Gibbs Hill Lighthouse. Photograph by Michael A. Orlando, July 2015.

Front cover of The History of Mary Prince, 1831.

A photograph of wheat fields in Ukraine.

Prospero and Miranda, characters from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). By William Maw Egley, c. 1850.

Prospero speaks with the spirit Ariel as his daughter Miranda sleeps in the background. From Act I Scene II of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). Oil on canvas by William Hamilton, 1797. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie...