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Amanda Smith  Booker T. Washington  Title Page from A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, by James Williams  Hallie Q. Brown  Portrait of Omar ibn Said 
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Sources of Images:
  1. Amanda Smith from An Autobiography: The Story of the Lord's Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith, the Colored Evangelist: Containing an Account of Her Life Work of Faith, and Her Travels in America, England, Ireland, Scotland, India, and Africa as an Independent Missionary by Amanda Smith (Chicago: Meyer & Brother Publishers, 1893).


  2. Booker T. Washington from Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Emmett J. Scott (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916).


  3. Title Page from A Narrative of Events Since the First of August, 1834, By James Williams, an Apprenticed Labourer in Jamaica by James Williams (London: J. Rider, [1837?]).


  4. Hallie Brown from Homespun Heroines and Other Women of Distinction by Hallie Q. Brown (Xenia, Ohio: Aldine Pub. Co., 1926).


  5. Omar ibn Said from a portrait held in the Southern Historical Collection and available online with the Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831. by Omar ibn Said and edited by John Franklin Jameson. From The American Historical Review, 30, No. 4. (July 1925), 787-795.