Author: Leigh, C. C.
Title: Emancipated Slaves, White and Colored. The Children Are from the Schools Established in New Orleans, by Order of Major-General Banks
Description: New York: Harper's Weekly, 1864. Wood-engraving. 10.5 x 15 inches. Framed and matted. Waterstains. The portraits are of Wilson Chinn; Charles Taylor; Augusta Broujey; Mary Johnson; Isaac White; Rebecca Huger; Robert Whitehead; Rosina Downs. To the Editor of Harper’s Weekly: The group of emancipated slaves whose portraits I send you were brought by Colonel Hanks and Mr. Phillip Bacon from New Orleans, where they were set free by General Butler. Mr. Bacon went to New Orleans with our army, and was for eighteen months employed as Assistant-Superintendent of Freedmen, under the care of Colonel Hanks. He established the first school in Louisiana for emancipated slaves, and these children were among his pupils. He will soon return to Louisiana to resume his labor. .

Keywords: African American, Blacks, Negroes, Civil War


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