"Images of Afro-Americans of the Emancipation Era": incomplete numbered set of black and white reprints from Harper's Magazine, Leslie's Illustrated, Currier & Ives: Hodges Publications, Liverpool, New York, with 22 page commentary [Note: Prints 5, 21, 22, 23, 24, and 25 are missing.]

Scope and content:

1. The Emancipation of the Negroes, January, 1863 [January 24, 1863] 2. Colored Troops, Under General Wild, Liberating Slaves in North Carolina [January 23, 1864] 3. A Negro Regiment In Action [March 14, 1863] 4. The Negro In The War–Various Employments of The Colored Men in The Federal Army [undated] 6. Negroes Escaping Out of Slavery [May 7, 1864] 7. Plantation Police, or Home Guard, Examining Passes on the Road Leading to the Levee of the Mississippi River [May 11, 1863] 8. Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored [January 20, 1864] 9. President Lincoln Riding Through Richmond, April 4, 1865, Immediately After The Evacuation of The City By General Lee [undated] 10. The First Vote [November 16, 1867] 11. The First Colored Senator and Representatives [undated] 12. A Remarkable Event in the History of the National Congress–The Honorable John Willis Menard, Colored Representative From Louisiana, Receiving the Congratulations of His Friends On The Floor of the House, Dec. 7th, 1868 [undated] 13. Flower Sellers In The Market at Washington, D. C./Free Municipal Election in Richmond Since the End of The War–Registration of Colored Voters [June 4, 1870] 14. Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia by the Colored People, in Washington, April 19, 1866/A Political discussion [May 12, 1866] 15. Educating the Freedmen/St. Philip's Church, Richmond, Virginia–School For Colored Children [May 25, 1867] 16. Zion School For Colored Children, Charleston, South Carolina [December 15, 1866] 17. Cotton Team In North Carolina [May 12, 1866] 18. Our Cotton Campaign in South Carolina–Gathering, Picking and Shipping The Cotton Crops of The Sea Islands, Port Royal By The Federal Army, Under General Sherman [February 15, 1862] 19. Rice Culture on the Ogeechee, Near Savannah [January 5, 1867] 20. Cotton Culture In The South [n. d.]

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English

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