Post Date:
May 8, 2013 11:44 PM
TAG ID:
pubnchpics006073
(RM)
Credit:
Charles Paxson / NC History Images/Newscom
Format:
4021 x 6504 Color JPEG
Photographer:
Charles Paxson
Keywords:
CW150, American Civil War, War Between the States, 1861-1865, Gladstone Collection, African American, Negro, slaves, slavery, 1860-1870, satire, propaganda, kids, children, slave children
Release Status:
No Model Release, No Property Release
Caption:
"Rebecca, A Slave Girl from New Orleans" Portrait of Rebecca Huger, facing right. As part of a propaganda campaign to garner sympathy for the cause of emancipation for the Negro slaves, white children were in a number of instances, photographed and portrayed as slave children themselves. Photograph taken ca. 1863.