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Underground Railroad

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Underground Railroad

The Underground Railroad Collection is a sampling of objects and paintings from the New-York Historical Society Museum that tells the story of resistance to slavery, the movement of fugitives, and the experiences and achievements of the enslaved and the free African American community of the North. It includes artifacts from the abolitionist movement, portraits of notable antislavery people, narrative art such as figure groups by John Rogers, and commemorative items such as a silver pitcher commissioned to mark the end of slavery in New York in 1827. These holdings have been studied and interpreted with support from the U.S. Department of Education Underground Railroad Educational and Cultural Program.

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General David Hunter (1802–1886) on Horseback
Unidentified artist
ca. 1864
1904.10
Fugitive Slaves in the Dismal Swamp, Virginia
David Edward Cronin
1888
1914.11
John Brown (1800-1859)
Unidentified artist
ca. 1855-1860
1916.2
Pierre Toussaint (ca. 1781–1853)
Anthony Meucci
ca. 1825
1920.4
Slave shackles
ca. 1866
1921.20
Pitcher
Joel Sayre
1818
1928.23a
The Slave Auction
John Rogers
1859
1928.28
The Fugitive's Story
John Rogers
September 7, 1869
1936.630
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)
John Rogers
1887
1937.35
John Brown's Blessing
Thomas Satterwhite Noble
1867
1939.250
Lantern
1750-1800
1941.444
Basket
ca. 1820-1830
1945.381
Figural group
ca. 1855
1945.390
Figurine of Uncle Tom with Eva
Unidentified maker
ca. 1860-1900
1945.391
William Leete Stone, Sr. (1792-1844)
Nathaniel Rogers
ca. 1825-1830
1949.38
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)
Thomas W. Brown
ca. 1875
1950.213
William Lloyd Garrison (1805–1879)
Edwin T. Billings
1954.161
Frances Wright (1795–1852)
Henry Inman
1824
1955.263
Pepper box
Simeon Soumaine
ca. 1730
1976.32ab
Plate
World Wide Art Studios
ca. 1946
2000.217
The Game of Tight Rope
McLoughlin Brothers
1870
2000.723
Coverlet
1984
2001.25
Maquette (Sojourner Truth Monument)
Barbara Chase-Riboud
1999
2007.13
"John Brown" pike
Charles Blair
1857-1859
INV.5736
Fred[erick] Douglass (1817-1895)
Unidentified artist
n.d.
PR.011.2
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance
Sojourner Truth
1864
PR.011.5.1
Peter Williams (1750–1823)
Unidentified artist
ca. 1810-1815
X.173
Dred Scott (ca. 1795–1858)
Unidentified artist
After 1857
X.174
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