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21 Ιουλ 2024 · Portraits of children captioned “Emancipated Slaves—White and Colored” were part of a publicity campaign to raise funds for schools for emancipated slaves.
The campaigners used light-skinned children because of the prejudice against darker-skinned ones, as white audiences associated innocence and purity with whiteness. Through an analysis of these photos, the themes of gender, childhood, and race become prominent.
These portraits of emancipated slave children from New Orleans were created as part of a campaign to raise money for their education and, more broadly, to generate sympathy for the plight of...
Photographs of emancipated children were sold to raise money for the education of freed slaves in New Orleans. The children featured in this photograph drew attention to the fact that slavery was not solely a matter of color.
5 ημέρες πριν · WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A Virginia museum has nearly finished restoring the nation’s oldest surviving schoolhouse for Black children, where hundreds of mostly enslaved students learned to read ...
In several photographs, African American subjects hold objects symbolic of their newfound freedoms and accomplishments in the wake of emancipation. In a small tintype (an image on a thin sheet of iron), a young boy stands with a school bag over his shoulder.
8 Αυγ 2023 · By the fall of 1872, African American children in Sharpsburg were attending a racially segregated public school in Tolson’s Chapel. The establishment of public schools in the former slave-holding states owed much to African Americans’ commitment to education.
