Untitled Image (Slave Dealer, Virginia)
This photograph shows the front of Price, Birch & Co, Dealers in Slaves with unidentified African Americans, in Union army uniforms, in the foreground. Price, Birch, & Co. was a well-known firm that kept slaves in pens or cells before they were sold to the Lower South. Dugan does not specify the location of the photograph, but the original is in the National Archives, Washington, D.C. For a companion photo, see image NW0246 on this website.
Image Title
Untitled Image (Slave Dealer, Virginia)
RegID
SI-OB-1176
Date
1863-1865
Title
Untitled Image (Slave Dealer, Virginia)
Source
Photograph by Andrew Joseph Russell, published in Ellen Dugan, ed., Picturing the South, 1860 to the Present (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1996), p. 33.
Language
English
Item sets
Slave Sales & Auctions: African Coast & the Americas
Spatial Coverage
North America--Virginia
Reproduced In
Ellen Dugan, ed., Picturing the South, 1860 to the Present (Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1996), p. 33.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
Dugan-2