(SLAVERY ABOLITION) McPherson Oliver; photographers Carte

Sale 2598 - Lot 61

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(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) McPherson & Oliver; photographers. Carte-de-visite photograph of a contraband camp at Baton Rouge. Albumen photograph, 2 x 3 1/2 inches, on original mount with photographer backmark; minor wear. Baton Rouge, LA, [1863]

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When the Union army took control of the Baton Rouge area, they turned a girls' seminary into a camp for formerly enslaved refugees, known as "contrabands"--one of many dozens of such camps established throughout the South. While most able-bodied men were recruited into the army or hired to work on army-controlled plantations, the camps were mostly home to women, children, and elderly men.