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...
This is an incredible stereographic card, taken during the Civil War. It's a powerful image of an Alexandria slave pen. Source: Library of Congress...
Faces & Places of Yesterday / 19.11.2012
Abraham Lincoln and The Black Code of the District of Columbia
I recently saw "Lincoln" with Mrs. Ghosts and was blown away by the history and power of the film. A number of visually stunning scenes depicted life in Washington during the waning years of the Civil War. The...
What an unbelievably powerful photo that speaks for itself. Click on it for a more detailed version. 1916 Slaves reunion. Lewis Martin, age 100; Martha Elizabeth Banks, age 104; Amy Ware, age 103;...