Reconstruction Images
Secession Takes Hold
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Map of states that seceded from the Union in 1861.
Ardently Following the War News
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Elderly Black man with spectacles reading a newspaper by candlelight. Watercolor, circa 1863. Henry L. Stephens, artist.
School for Freedmen
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James E. Taylor. "The Freedmen's Union Industrial School, Richmond, Va." From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 22nd, 1866.
Seizing Their Freedom
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The arrival of a fugitive slave family behind Union lines, January 1st, 1863.
Survivors of Slavery
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A former slave with the horn with which slaves were called. Near Marshall, Texas.