[WHITE SLAVE CHILDREN FROM NEW ORLEANS ARE PUT ON DISPLAY BY THE FREEDMANS BUREAU TO BOLSTER FLAGGING NORTHERN SUPPORT FOR CONTINUING THE CIVIL WAR]; Twelve different cartes-de-visite picturing white slave children from New Orleans who were freed when General Benjamin Butler occupied the city
New York: 1863-1864. Unbound. This group consists of twelve photographs of the four white children included in a group of eight emancipated slaves that were taken North in November and December of 1863 on a publicity tour to shore up flagging support for the Civil War. The inclusion of white..... More