Freed Slaves Work for the Federal Army, 1862
Description
This illustration, not based on an eyewitness drawing, is supposed to portray escaped Southern slaves working on Union army fortifications in Port Royal, South Carolina; it illustrates a brief article (p. 22) which lauds the work of these slaves and stresses that the whip is not needed to induce them to work
Source
Le Monde Illustré; (Paris),Vol. 10 (1862), p. 10
Language
French
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
monde2
Spatial Coverage
North America--South Carolina
Item sets
Citation
"Freed Slaves Work for the Federal Army, 1862", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed January 23, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/791