American foot-soldiers during the Yorktown campaign, 1781. From a water-color drawing in the diary of Jean Baptiste Antoine de Verger. This drawing contains the one of the few known images of an African American soldier from the period.
The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
Brown University Library
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These are the images and accounts of how people worked, raised families, built communities, worshiped, maintained relationships, expressed themselves and coped with changes and challenges in the past. Most of the subjects are Americans of African descent.
"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go." — James Baldwin
