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- GLC#
- GLC02199.10-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- 1876
- Author/Creator
- Forbes, Edwin, 1839-1895
- Title
- A Slave Cabin
- Place Written
- New York, New York
- Pagination
- 1 etching : b&w Height: 46.9 cm, Width: 59.6 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
Marked "Plate 10." Contains 3 images. Upper left image is titled "A Slave Cabin," and shows a shabby wooden shack with a makeshift canopy for a porch. Upper right image is titled "The Old Grist Mill," and shows a large clapboard mill with a very tall waterwheel and a stone foundation. Bottom image is titled "'Got any pies for sale, Aunty?'" and shows a Union soldier straggling from the line of march in a search of luxuries. The cabin the soldier is at has a roof that is caving in. The bottom picture is flanked on one side by the image of an enslaved person named "Sam" and flanked on the other by an image titled "A Picaninny" and shows an enslaved grandchild and grandfather. Actual size of the image without the margins is 27.3 x 40.5 cm. Outline from matting is faintly visible. Titles taken from the table of contents.
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