The ‘white’ slave children of New Orleans in rare photographs, 1863

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On January 30, 1864, Harper’s Weekly started to publish portraits of children captioned “Emancipated Slaves—White and Colored,” as part of a publicity campaign to raise funds for schools for recently emancipated slaves in New Orleans. The children featured in these photographs drew attention to the fact that slavery was not solely a matter of color. […]