Rescuing, Preserving, Documenting and Exhibiting the
Courage of African Americans over the Past Four Centuries.

The Mark E. Mitchell Collection of African American History spans four centuries, consisting of well over
5,000 individual pieces -- defying description both in scope and content. Here is one of the highlights...

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SLAVE MUTINY ON THE AMISTAD -- the 1840 illustration showing the captive Africans taking over the
Spanish slaving vessel, "L'Amistad," in 1839--the surviving blacks were eventually freed by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1841.
 

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