Gallery Page by hadassah | Aug 18, 2021 Mounted Buffalo Soldiers Norma Padgett who claimed the men raped her. old black cowboys President Andrew Johnson President Ruthertford B. Hayes President Thomas Jefferson Rep Carrie Meek was the first black woman from Florida to be elected to congress from Florida. She died in 2021. Reverend James Paage was freed by his owner in 1851 and became the first ordained black minister in Florida. Sally Hemings Secretary of War Edward M. Stanton Sharecroppers in Lousianna Sheldon Chappell at his mother's grave. Shoes worn by enslaved children_ probably in Mississippi who were issued only one pair a year. Notice the condition of some of the shoes. Slave auction at the Evergreen Plantation Slave cabins on the Kingsley Plantation. These are the only preserved slave cabins in Florida Slaves boarding a steamboat on the Mississippi River. Slaves praying Slaves using the Mississippi River to escape. Some black cowboys attained skills on horesback that amazed crowds. One of them could put out a hand-held lighted match riding by at full gallop. Texile mill The Castillo de San Marcos in St Augustine was built with the help of skilled black slaves brought in from Cuba. The children of black share croppers in Mississippi following the Civil War. Life was no better for them than it was before the war. The children of Johnnie Mae Chappell The cover of Le Petit Journal_ 7 October 1906. Depicting the race riots in Atlanta Georgia. The Lynchings in the United States The Massacre of Negroes in Atlanta. Public Domain women power Mary McLeod Bethune entering the White House. She founded Bethune Cookman College in Daytona and was a close friend of Elanor Roosevelt.. The descendants of slaves on the Kingsley Plantation near Jacksonville Florida Slaves boarding a steamboat on the Mississippi River. The Florida Cracker Trail historic marker slaves escaping on the Mississipi River The Kingsley big house rear view « ‹ of 30 › »