(PHOTOGRAPHY) Emancipated Slaves Brought from Louisiana by C

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"EMANCIPATED SLAVES..." (PHOTOGRAPHY.) Emancipated Slaves. Brought from Louisiana by Col. George H. Hanks. Oval albumen print, 5 1/2x7 3/8 inches, on the original photographer's mount with printed captions. On the reverse is a notice that all proceeds from the sale of this photograph will go to the education of colored people in the Department of the Gulf now under the Command of Major-General Banks. A couple of tiny marks on the mount, possibly when the photograph was originally glued to the mount. New York: M. H. Kimball, 1863

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Shows three adults: Wilson Chinn (who bears a brand on his forehead), Mary Johnson and Robert Whitehead, and five children: Charles Taylor, Augusta Broujey, Isaac White, Rebecca Huger and Rosina Downs. Individual cartes-de-visite of these slaves, liberated by General Banks (and later General Butler), were distributed widely following the early successes of the Union troops in Louisiana and South Carolina. An engraved version of this photograph appeared in the pages of Harper's Weekly for January 30, 1864, together with short biographies of each person. The oldest of the slaves was Wilson Chinn, about 6o years old, his forehead branded with his owner's initials "VBM;" the youngest Rosina Downs, "not quite seven years old."