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.](https://ghostsofdc.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/7/2014/01/11746uu_0.jpg)
Source: Shorpy
This is a powerful Civil War-era photograph. It shows Price, Birch & Co., which was a slave dealing business.
Source: Shorpy