Noon at the Primary School for Freedmen, Vicksburg, Mississippi

Description

This illustration depicts a busy schoolyard with children and white teachers. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City and published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916. It featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects and humor, alongside illustrations. It covered the American Civil War extensively, including many illustrations of events from the war.

Source

Harper's Weekly (June 23, 1866), p. 392.

Language

English

Rights

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Identifier

HW0038

Spatial Coverage

North America--Mississippi

Item sets

Family Life, Child Care, Schools

Citation

"Noon at the Primary School for Freedmen, Vicksburg, Mississippi", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed May 3, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/658

This illustration depicts a busy schoolyard with children and white teachers. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City and published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916. It featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects and humor, alongside illustrations. It covered the American Civil War extensively, including many illustrations of events from the war.