Perfect timing for our discussion of Frances E.W. Harper's Iola Leroy (1892)! Harper's sentimental/uplift novel represents the role of enslaved African Americans during the Civil War and immediately after Emancipation. And here's a new book of rare photographs of African Americans, taken during the Civil War and after Emancipation. These photographs have never been collected before. The book's authors searched archives to find them. The following link will take you to a blog that discusses the book and that posts photographs from the book:
http://kalamu.posterous.com/history-photo-essay-picturing-freedom-how-for
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