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This is an 8x12 inch Reproduction Photograph made from a high quality scan of the original. When evaluating the quality of the photo, please keep in mind that most photos in our collection were taken over 100 years ago.
Title: Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.
Creator(s): King & Baird, engraver
Related Names:
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902 , artist
Bott, S.
Umpehent, J. W. ,S. Bott, no. 43 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Penna., c1865. Thomas Nast\'s celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves. Civil War. Nast envisions future of free blacks in the United States. freedman\'s home with the family. \'Union\' wood stove. father bounces child on knee while his wife looks on. portrait of Lincoln and above it, Thomas Crawford\'s statue of \'Freedom.\' On either side of the central picture. black life in the South under the Confederacy. visions of the freedman\'s life after the war. fugitive slaves are hunted down in a coastal swamp. Cerberus, and flee from the gleaming apparition of Freedom. woman with an olive branch and scales of justice stands triumphant. freedman\'s cottage can be seen in a peaceful landscape. black mother sends her children off to \'Public School.\' At bottom a free Negro receives his pay from a cashier. Lincoln\'s portrait. black field slave. foreman politely greets Negro cotton-field workers. J.W. Umpehent ... Pennsylvania.\' American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1865-3.
Subjects:
African Americans (portrayed), emancipated.
Freedom (personified).
Labor and trades, portrayed.
Lincoln, Abraham, presidency.
Slaves and slavery.
Schools, for African Americans. 8x12 inches.
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Source: Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
