International Slavery Museum exhibit: ‘Branding a Negress’ engraving by Whitney Jocelyn Annin (b&w photo) by American School (19th century).

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    Chattel Slavery: I appear before this vast assembly as a thief and a robber. I stole this head these limbs, this body from my master and ran off with them. Frederick Douglass, former slave and abolition campaigner, 1853. Chattel slaves were the outright property of their masters. Children were born into chattel slavery. As their parents belonged to their masters, so did they. Africans were branded with hot irons, no differently from cattle, to mark them as possessions. Plantation owners and slave traders justified their actions by claiming that Black men, women and children were closer to animals than they were to white people, and should be treated as such.

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    Diego Sideburns

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    Link: https://www.flickr.com/photos/67168034@N00/21240032325/
    Resource type: Image
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 4 years, 5 months ago
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    Picture Taken: 2015-09-04T15:58:20

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