Artist Lewis Miller's Sketchbook of Virginia Landscapes, 1853-67 Contributor: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation

Artist Lewis Miller’s Sketchbook of Virginia Landscapes, 1853–67, captures the separation of an enslaved family at the auction block. Even before the United States Congress abolished the slave trade in 1808, a domestic slave trade emerged, resulting in the sale and forced migration of hundreds of thousands of American-born enslaved individuals to the Deep South.