Images

Ellen Craft (l. 1826-1891) in her disguise as a Southern gentleman during the 1848 flight to freedom of Ellen and her husband William Craft (l. 1824-1900). The original image appeared as the frontspiece to their Running a Thousand Miles For...

Title page of Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773. Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Frontspiece to Phillis Wheatley's Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, 1773, by the artist Scipio Moorhead (active 1773-1775). Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

View of Bermuda from Gibbs Hill Lighthouse. Photograph by Michael A. Orlando, July 2015.

Front cover of The History of Mary Prince, 1831.

A photograph of wheat fields in Ukraine.

Prospero and Miranda, characters from William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). By William Maw Egley, c. 1850.

Prospero speaks with the spirit Ariel as his daughter Miranda sleeps in the background. From Act I Scene II of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). Oil on canvas by William Hamilton, 1797. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie...

Ariel lures Prince Ferdinand to Prospero's cell in Act I Scene II of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest (1611). Oil on canvas by John Everett Millais, 1850. Makin Collection.

Caliban from William Shakespeare's The Tempest. Painting by Joseph Noel Paton, 1868.