Colored Troops under General Wild, Liberating Slaves in North Carolina

Description

This image depicts members of Wild's battalion freeing slaves from the Terrebee plantation. These slaves were accused of taking valuable animals from the farm. 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 (Jan. 23, 1864), p. 52.

Language

English

Rights

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

Identifier

HW0022

Spatial Coverage

North America--North Carolina

Item sets

Military Activities & U.S. Civil War

Citation

"Colored Troops under General Wild, Liberating Slaves in North Carolina", 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/815

This image depicts members of Wild's battalion freeing slaves from the Terrebee plantation. These slaves were accused of taking valuable animals from the farm. 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.