Reaching for Equality  Tags: tatkon_center  

“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”

                                                                        --Abraham Lincoln, 1863

Bancroft Copy of the Gettysburg Address --
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Annotated version of the Gettysburg Address

Protest on Behalf of a Fugitive Slave
Citizens of Boston! A Free Citizen of Massachusetts—Free by Massachusetts Laws until His Liberty is Declared to be Forfeited by a Massachusetts Jury, is Now Imprisoned . . . Boston: s.n., ca. 1855. 
Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Samuel J. May Anti-Slavery Collection

"I Will Be Heard!" Abolitionism in America

Olive Gilbert. Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828. Boston: Printed for the author, 1850. Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

"I Will Be Heard!" Abolitionism in America

Slave Tag. "Slaves that had been hired out for the day were legally required to wear a thin copper badge around their necks to signify that he or she was licensed and taxes paid for this service. Slaves were arrested and masters fined if the slave was discovered working for others without a Tag."  Cornell University Library, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections

Rebel Flag and Banner

A Brief Construction History of the Capitol