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Powerful Civil War-Era Photograph of Price, Birch & Co. Slave Dealing Business

This powerful Civil War-era photo shows Price, Birch & Co., a slave dealing business in Alexandria, Virginia. Photograph by Andrew J. Russell. Source: Shorpy.
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This is a powerful Civil War-era photograph. It shows Price, Birch & Co., which was a slave dealing business.

Union Army guard at Price, Birch & Co. slave pen at Alexandria, Virginia, circa 1865. Detail of albumen print. Photograph by Andrew J. Russell.
Union Army guard at Price, Birch & Co. slave pen at Alexandria, Virginia, circa 1865. Detail of albumen print. Photograph by Andrew J. Russell.

Source: Shorpy

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