An apparent Matthew Brady studios photograph of slave children, taken either during the Civil War or shortly after emancipation. Found recently in an estate sale in North Carolina, in a photo album for which collector Keya Morgan paid $30,000. The flip side of my earlier “ode” photo. Morgan’s site on original Abraham Lincoln photos is fascinating, each digital copy scanned from an original and therefore sharp as a tack.
The man “who freed the slaves,” as the saying goes. Lincoln didn’t, of course, to put a fine legal point on it. But they certainly might not ever have been freed without him.
Via The Confederate Book Review.
UPDATE: A commenter at this site claims the photo could be from a Caribbean banana plantation. Doesn’t explain the “Brady” on the card, tho.
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