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A Formerly Enslaved Man Describes the Environmental Difficulties of Escape (1857)
William J. Anderson was enslaved for 24 years. In 1836, he escaped enslavement and fled from a plantation near Vicksburg, Mississippi. Anderson eventually settled in Indiana. As a free man, Anderson became a successful farm and business owner and [...]
Item Type: Biography/Autobiography
Historical Eras: Antebellum America (1816-1860), Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877)
Children Working in a Shrimp Cannery (1911)
This 1911 photograph depicts workers, including two young children, picking shrimp in a cannery in Biloxi, Mississippi. Shrimp canneries often employed entire families, many of them immigrants, who worked peeling, cleaning, and cooking shrimp that [...]
Item Type: Item_3352
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)