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PAGE 2: Relaxed scene of soldiers from the Army of the Potomac eat their meal in the company of an African American, probably a “contraband,” employed to cook and perform work for the soldiers. ca.1862–65. PAGE 3: On April 19, 1866, African Americans staged a huge celebration of the fourth anniversary of the District of Columbia's Emancipation Act. RIGHT: Enslaved African American family representing five generations born on the plantation of J.J. Smith, Beaufort, South Carolina. PAGE 6: Union army guard and other men in front of a building designated “Price, Birch & Co., Dealers in Slaves,” in Alexandria, Virginia. ca. 1863.

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