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The Freed Slaves’ Prospects; or, The Copperheads’ Revenge
This drawing from 1863 encapsulates the dangerous anti-federal anti-black sentiment that bubbled up in the Civil War north once the slaves were freed. Dominating the drawing is a figure resembling...
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Lincoln’s Body (1901)
After Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on 14 April 1865, his body was carried by train to Springfield, Illinois, where Mary Todd Lincoln, his widow, had determined the late president would be buried....
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Joseph Mason and “Frank”: Two Enslaved Teens Freed in Washington, DC
On April 16, 1862, an Act of Congress freed every slave in the District of Columbia. The law, coming a year after the outbreak of the Civil War, was the first direct blow to slaveholding, preceding...
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The Dawn of Modern American Race Relations
This drawing from 1868 remains powerful. It captures the virulent hatred of southern whites toward blacks (their former “property”) just after the South was defeated in the Civil War. Because the...
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