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The first two photographs below show so-called
"contrabands" (slaves who had been liberated by Union army forces or
who came into Union lines on their own) lounging in front of a building
in 1862. The second photo shows a building in Atlanta, Georgia, in
which slave sales had taken place. The lower two photographs
show the slave quarters-buildings that housed the slaves on a relatively
large plantation before the war. What do the photos suggest about slaves
and slave life in the United States before the Civil War?
Click on the photographs below to view larger images. Click on the text to read the bibliographic record for the image. View additional images on this topic from Civil War Photographs, 1861-1865 and from Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1920. Use your browser's Back Button to return to this point.
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