Slave Badges and Dog Tags: Personal Artifacts of Enslaved and Free African-Americans Before 1865

2022 Stack Family Lecture on American Numismatics: In the whole realm of material culture, very few objects can be unquestionably ascribed to the possession of African-Americans before 1865. However, in spite of the overall rarity of these sorts of items, two significant groups of intensely personal objects can be classed as “numismatic.” From 1783 to […]