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The images included children with predominantly European features photographed alongside dark-skinned adult slaves with typically African features. It was intended to shock the viewing audiences with a reminder that slaves shared their humanity, and evidence that slaves did not belong in the category of the “Other”.
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Historic Photos of Young White Slaves from New Orleans, 1860s. 1.7k Views. Children’s photos were sold to raise money for freed slaves’ education in New Orleans during the mid-19th century. In the photographs, children demonstrated that slavery was not solely a matter of color.
For Northern readers scanning the Jan. 30, 1864, issue of Harper’s Weekly for news from the South, a large engraving on page 69 brought the war home in an unexpected way. Drawn from a photograph,...
White women are sometimes seen as bystanders to slavery. A historian explains why that’s wrong. by Anna North. Aug 19, 2019, 8:30 AM PDT. A group of enslaved women and a man sit on the steps...
By Ava Coon. “White slaves” photos, as historians call them, were used to campaign for the education and ultimately the uplift of enslaved African Americans. The photographs were taken in New Orleans to encourage white northerners to support the Union army because many northerners rejected the draft at this time.
These pictures tell stories of their creators and subjects, revealing a fuller picture of the American experience. In some pictures from before the Civil War, African Americans are photographed with the children of the white families that enslaved or employed them.
