Accompanying document details sale of one child for $1,150
RALEIGH, N.C. - A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young black child named John, barefoot and wearing ragged clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unidentified young boy.
Art historians believe it's an extremely rare Civil War-era photograph of children who were either slaves at the time or recently emancipated.
The photo, which may have been taken in the early 1860s, was a testament to a dark part of American history, said Will Stapp, a photographic historian and founding curator of the National Portrait Gallery's photographs department at the Smithsonian Institution.
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12 comments:
1975 at the Granruth plantation,social services granted the fed govt employee 3 slaves,and welfare to pay his morgage.beat the hell out of them and their mother,and spent the money on huntin and fishin.he was so poor in his sports,slaves ate blue fish patties and boiled squirrel and rice.very sad.dont depend on the govt to take care of you ,trust me!btw ,they were white.
@ 8:43 in 1975??
who cares its the past its over.there are no slaves left in this country so i dont feel bad for them if you find one ill be happy to go apologize to them becuase early settlers(no relation to me)bought them from their own people and brought them to america.its just another give me give me for minorities.dont they get enough already?
Bought them from their own people? Are you stupid?
Slaves were forcibly taken and children forcibly taken from mothers.
This is a piece of history. No one asked your ignorant self to apologize.
Some of you crazies just have to find something to give you an excuse to say something stupid and hateful.
7:53 Check your history. Yes, over in Africa they sold their people to white merchants for slavery.
We were wrong - they were wrong.
A small amount of Africans sold other Africans. Very small amounts. Using that as an excuse is completely off base. This picture, as the information explains is of a boy being sold HERE. 1:02's comments ar both offensive and uniformed, Ridiculous
Slavery is still rampant in Africa , less then 1 % of people in America actually owned slaves time to move on stop pleading victim hood not from the African Americans but the MSM perpetuating victim hood . time to be just plain ole Americans !
This was started by our so-called Founding Fathers. They were British and French Freemasons.
Their descendents run our lives today.
Most of us earn enough money to pay for: Rent, utilities, and food.
Many of us use credit to finance the remainder of our lifestyles. We are slaves to the international bankers. The international bankers are the descendents of our Founding Fathers.
Thank you
9:09 You have the freedom to be a banker in this country if you want too ! Nobody is forcing you to live above you means either, You need to get over yourself nobody owes you a life take responsibility for your laziness .
I have been doing genealogy for over 10 years and I haven't found one ancestor of mine who owned a slave, not one!!
I don't owe anyone an apology what others did 300 years ago. Niether does any American today for that matter.
remember, slavery was not limited to africans. many people have been slaves over the years. the romans took slaves from all over the known world, the egyptians had slaves from where ever they went.
it was a way of life at one point in history, but this does not excuse it.
what we must do is learn from our mistakes so we dont repeat them.
Does it matter Obama is trying to enslave us all ! Hows that for equality ?
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