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[Full-length portrait of an unidentified, seated girl] [graphic].

[Children posed on lawn chairs]

[Young African American nursemaid with her young white charge]

Fannie Lawrence

Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence [graphic] : A redeemed slave child, 5 years of age. Redeemed in Virginia, by Catherine S. Lawrence; baptized in Brooklyn, at Plymouth Church, by Henry Ward Beecher, May, 1863.

[Convalescing children]

Fannie Lawrence

I'm not to blame for being white, sir! [graphic]

[Convalescing children]

Cotton plantation scene.

Uncle Tom and Little Eva.

First meeting of Uncle Tom and Eva.

A Virginia slave child in 1863

Isaac and Rosa, emancipated slave children, from the free schools of Louisiana.

Emancipated slaves.

Emancipated slaves.