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[Portrait of Samuel Price]

Description: Photograph of Samuel Price, a former slave, who owned 4,000 acres of land in Palestine, Texas. He has a beard and a mustache and is wearing a suit jacket and a tie.
Date: unknown
Partner: Price Johnson Family Collection

[Bible of Rev. Anthony Garnett Smith, Sr.]

Description: Photograph of a page of Reverend Anthony Garnett Smith, Sr.'s Bible. About 114 names and birthdates have been recorded throughout the Bible. The names on this page are slaves.
Date: unknown
Creator: Smith, Anthony Joseph
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Slave Built Home From 1854]

Description: Photograph of a home built by slave labor in 1854. The house is white painted wood with a brick chimney, a front porch, and a balcony directly overhead. There is a large tree in front of the home and a wire fence with wooden posts located in the foreground on the right side of the photo.
Date: unknown
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Partner: Texas Lutheran University

[Portrait of Anne Freeman Graves]

Description: Photograph of an older, African-American woman seated in a wooden chair outside a house with wood siding. Back of photographs says, "Anne Freeman Graves, (Baylor slave), Independence, Tex"
Date: unknown
Partner: Star of the Republic Museum

[Keepsake and letter]

Description: Scan of a keepsake next to a letter, the letter reads "I made this little keepsake from a counter---- which was woven by my grandmother from home --- thread and given to my mother on her wedding day May 15, 1834. Mother, December 25, 1915. Two negro women with a child were given her also - wouldn't they make queer bridal presents for this century? Who can say Christianity is not making ----!"
Date: 1843/1915
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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