Details
Title Emancipated slaves [graphic].
Publisher [New York: Harper & Brothers]
Publisher NY. New York. 1864
Date [January 1864]
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving; overall 27 x 39 cm. (10.5 x 15.5 in)
Description From left to right, the group portrait shows: Wilson Chinn, a man of about sixty, whose forehead was branded with the initials V.B.M.; Charles Taylor, an eight year-old boy identified in the accompanying text as white; August Broujey, a nine year-old girl whose mother was "almost white;" Mary Johnson, an adult woman; Isaac Watts, a black boy of nine; Rebecca Huger, an eleven year-old, who "to all appearance . . . is perfectly white;" the Reverend Robert Whitehead, an ordained preacher; and Rosina Downs, a "fair child" of "not quite seven years." In addition to the group portrait, cartes de visite of the individual sitters were made. As the accompanying text explains, both could be purchased through the New York-based National Freeman's Relief Association; the proceeds went to support Louisiana schools.
Is part of Harper's weekly. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864.
Notes Full-page illustration in Harper's Weekly (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1864), vol. 8, no. 370 (January 30, 1864), p. 69.
Small caption underneath the image reads: "Emancipated slaves, white and colored. -- The children are from the schools established in New Orleans, by order of Major-General Banes."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Subject Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States.
Genre Wood engravings -- 1860-1870.
Periodical illustrations -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | **Per H 1529.F v 8 n 370 Jan 30 1864 p 69
Accession number 1529.D