Log Cabin Gallery

Slave couple marrying by jumping over a broom

Broomstick wedding ceremony of African-American slaves, from an eyewitness before the Civil War.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Natchez War on French settlers, Mississippi, 1729

Native American raid on French colonial settlement at Natchez, Mississippi, November, 1729.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Plum pudding served for a frontier family's Christmas dinner, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by A.B. Frost

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