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1. 1770–1900: Out of the House of Bondage
From: The Negro Vanguard

2. Free Blacks, 1790–1820
From: History of Black Americans

3. Allen, Richard (1760–1831)
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

4. Arkansas
From: Slavery in the South

5. ATTUCKS, CRISPUS (1723–1770)
From: Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education

6. Attucks, Crispus (c. 1723–1770)
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SLAVE RESISTANCE AND REBELLION

7. Black Abolitionists
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SLAVE RESISTANCE AND REBELLION

8. The Development of African American Masculinity among Free Black Males, 1619-1861
From: “I Will Wear No Chain!”

9. The Freedmen’s Bureau, 1865–72
From: The Reconstruction Era

10. Fighting Old and New Enemies: The South, 1865–1877
From: Reconstruction

11. Freedmen’s Bureau Act, 1866
From: The Reconstruction Era

12. FREEDOM AFTER SLAVERY.
From: Thirty Years a Slave

13. Contracts
From: Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era [Two Volumes]

14. Delaware
From: Slavery in the South

15. Equiano, Olaudah (c. 1745–1797)
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

16. Florida
From: Slavery in the South

17. Free Blacks in the Post-Emancipation Societies
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

18. Volunteers on a Freedom Rider’s Bus, while police cars and soldiers line the streets, 1961. Courtesy Library of Congress. Free Persons of Color in the Antebellum North
From: Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States

19. FREEDMEN
From: Dictionary of Afro-American Slavery

20. Freedmen's Relief Societies
From: Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era [Two Volumes]

21. FREEDMEN’S BUREAU
From: Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education

22. Freedmen’s Bureau
From: Encyclopedia of Racism in the United States

23. Freedmen's Aid Societies
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

24. Freedmen's Bureau
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

25. FREEDMEN’S BUREAU
From: Historical Dictionary of Reconstruction

26. Georgia
From: Slavery in the South

27. Hall, Prince (c. 1735–1807), Black Freemasonry, and Antislavery
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

28. King, Boston (1760–1802)
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

29. Liberated Africans at the Cape of Good Hope
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

30. Liberia
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

31. Liberia
From: The Jim Crow Encyclopedia

32. Louisiana
From: Slavery in the South

33. Maryland
From: Slavery in the South

34. Myers, Stephen (1800–1870) and Myers, Harriet (1807–1865)
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

35. Nova Scotia
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

36. Parker, John Percial (1827–1900)
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

37. Port Royal (South Carolina)
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

38. PREFACE
From: The Development of State Legislation Concerning the Free Negro

39. Primary Documents of Reconstruction
From: Reconstruction

40. Sierra Leone
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

41. Smith, James McCune (1813–1865)
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

42. South Carolina
From: Slavery in the South

43. Tennessee
From: Slavery in the South

44. Texas
From: Slavery in the South

45. United States, Antislavery in
From: ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANTISLAVERY AND ABOLITION

In a scene typical of postwar Alabama and other Deep South states, a family of freed slaves continues to live in former slave quarters. (Library of Congress.)

Log cabins like this one belonging to a black freedman were a common form of housing in both antebellum and postwar Missouri. (Library of Congress.)

Tennessee freedmen line up for assistance at the Memphis office of the Freedman’s Bureau. (Library of Congress.)

Freed slaves, escorted by Union soldiers, migrate to North Carolina after the 1863 issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation.

The Misses Cooke’s school room, one of the schools established for former slaves by the Freedmen’s Bureau, Richmond, Virginia.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

Freedmen’s schools offered education to African American children as well as adults. (Library of Congress)