Black Confederate Soldiers, Virginia, 1863
Source
Harper's Weekly, January 10, 1863, vol. 7 (front page).
Description
Caption, Rebel Negro Pickets as seen through a field glass. These two men were soldiers in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The author of the accompanying article discusses the debate between Southern slave owners and Northerners as to the involvement of slaves in the civil war. Some Northerners questioned the practice, while many slave owners found Negroes to be quite useful.
Date Created
1863
Language
English
Rights
Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
Identifier
HW0016
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