Four union officers in front of tent, with two Africans-American during the Petersburg Campaign. Many former slaves, emancipated in 1863, were employed a servants to Union officers. August, 1864.
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The Price of Freedom
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“We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans.”
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Fool me once…
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students at Roger Williams University in Nashville, Tennessee, ca. 1899
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African Americans, members of 369th Colored Infantry, wave from a troop ship as they arrive back in New York City, ca. 1919
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Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) lifelong activist for abolition of slavery and civil rights for freed slaves and women
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Booker T. Washington (1856-1915)