Negroes Leaving their Home

Description

This image shows a family leaving their cabin by boat under the cover of night northwards for the Union line. 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 (April 9, 1864), p.237.

Language

English

Rights

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

Identifier

HW0025

Spatial Coverage

North America

Item sets

Military Activities & U.S. Civil War

Citation

"Negroes Leaving their Home", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed May 7, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/814
This image shows a family leaving their cabin by boat under the cover of night northwards for the Union line. 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.
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