Black And White Escaped Slaves 1863 Abolitionist CDV Photo Civil Rights War

DETAILS: Original carte de visite (CDV) photograph of three escaped slaves taken by photographer M. Kimball, New York City, 1863.

Indicia marking on verso credit abolitionist Major General Nathaniel P. Banks, commander of the Union's Department of the Gulf as the publisher. BACKGROUND: This CDV photograph was part of a series that photographer M. Kimball did in 1863 for the Abolitionist Movement. They were later reprinted on January 30, 1864, in Harper's Weekly titled"Emancipated Slaves-White and Colored".

The children featured in the photographs drew attention to the fact that slavery was not solely a matter of color. If a child's mother was a slave, then they too were a slave. It was intended to remind the viewing public that slaves shared their humanity. It is considered among the most important photographs of the Abolitionist Movement as well as being an important work of photographic journalism during the Civil War. Oxxbridge Galleries was founded in 1987 and specializes in vintage paper items with a large selection of historical and 19th Century tintypes, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, cabinet cards, carte des visites and other types of early photography.