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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The Middle Passage - graphic illustration of the hold of a slave vessel:
“Plan of an African Ship's Lower Deck, with Negroes in the proportion of not quite one to a Ton.”
 

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