Ask the Chatbot Games & Quizzes ProCon History & Society Science & Tech Biographies Animals & Nature Geography & Travel Arts & Culture Money Videos
American Anti-Slavery Society
Table of Contents
Introduction References & Edit History Quick Facts & Related Topics
Images & Videos
The Slave's Friend
How the Whitney Plantation teaches the history of slavery
The remarkable resilience of enslaved people in colonial America
Quizzes
Sojourner Truth, c. 1870, photograph by Randall Studio. To earn a living, Truth sold her autobiography and portraits like this one. Here, her inscription, "I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance," emphasizes her financial acumen.
Fast Facts About Abolitionism Quiz
Read Next
Frederick Douglass, between 1880 and 1890; photo by George Kendall Warren.
8 Influential Abolitionist Texts
Discover
Thanksgiving Turkey with all the sides
Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?
The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. (Alice in Wonderland)
11 Banned Books Through Time
A human Inuit skull in a stone chambered cairn in Ilulissat in Greenland. These ancient graves are pre christian and are at least 2000
14 Tough Questions Answered
Baseball laying in the grass. Homepage blog 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics
10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time
An ancient egyptian hieroglyphic painted carving showing the falcon headed god Horus seated on a throne and holding a golden fly whisk. Before him are the Pharoah Seti and the goddess Isis. Interior wall of the temple to Osiris at Abydos, Egypt.
11 Egyptian Gods and Goddesses
Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint
8 of the Largest Empires in History
Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society
12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

American Anti-Slavery Society: Media

United States history
Share
Share to social media
URL
https://www.britannica.com/topic/American-Anti-Slavery-Society/images-videos

Videos

How the Whitney Plantation teaches the history of slavery
Museum director Ashley Rogers explains how the Whitney Plantation became the only...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
The remarkable resilience of enslaved people in colonial America
Historical interpreter Stephen Seals discusses the everyday lives and remarkable...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

The Slave's Friend
The Slave's Friend, children's periodical published by R.G. Williams for...
The Newberry Library, Ruggles Fund, 1999 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
VIEW MORE in these related Britannica articles: