Freed Slave Gallery

Cartoon about literacy tests in the South, 1870s

"The blakman orter be eddikated afore he kin vote with us wites" - cartoon about literacy tests, 1870s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century Thomas Nast cartoon

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Blacks in South Carolina legislature under Reconstruction

Reconstructed South Carolina legislature, including African-American delegates, passing an appropriations bill, 1873.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

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Emancipation Proclamation explained to former slaves in Louisiana

US Army officer meeting with African-Americans in Louisiana after the Emancipation Proclamation, 1863.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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