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THBWhite and Black Slaves from New Orleans CDV
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Cincinnati , OH 45232
United States
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About Auction
LiveSep 8, 2017 - Sep 9, 2017
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- Lot Description
Albumen carte de visite, titled on recto, White and Black Slaves from New Orleans. Credited to Kimball of New York in 1863. Verso imprint reads: "The nett proceeds from the sale of these photographs will be devoted exclusively to the education of colored people in the Department of the Gulf, now under the command of Maj. Gen. Banks."
A studio portrait of two of the "Slave Children of New Orleans," Isaac White and Augusta Broujey, posed with freed slave Mary Johnson. The three subjects were part of a larger group of five children and three adults, including Wilson Chinn pictured in Lot 192, that had been brought north from Louisiana by Colonel George H. Hanks and set free by Major General Nathaniel P. Banks.
Several CDVs of this type were sold by the National Freedman's Association in 1864 and 1865 in order to garner the support of Northern whites who had no sympathy for black slaves, but were shocked and outraged at the sight of white slaves. The subjects in the photograph appear in other photographs and periodical articles of this time and the mixed-race children are described as the immoral offspring of a slave owner and one of his light-complexioned slaves, who was probably born in the same manner.
Condition
Smudge/soiling atop head of young girl at right. Even toning to CDV. Light discoloration along lower margin of mount.
Male mallard is broken off of base, with beak broken as well.
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