Federal troops arrived in Galveston, Texas in 1865 with the Emancipation Proclamation signed two and a half years earlier as depicted in this illustration. Click on images to enlarge. |
Crowds of people, recently freed from enslavement, carry copies of the proclamation in this 1864 illustration. |
The Union Commander's notice of the Emancipation Proclamation, as posted for the citizens of Winchester, Virginia on January 5, 1863. |
Photograph of a group of formerly enslaved people at a country almshouse in 1900. |
A formerly enslaved man and woman are shown at a plantation house in Green County, Georgia, 1937. |
Minerva and Edgar Bendy were formerly enslaved, but are now free in Woodville, Texas, 1937. |
Work-weathered hands of Henry Brooks, a formerly enslaved man from Green County, Georgia, 1941. |
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