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Celebrating Emancipation Day

This drawing, Celebration of Emancipation, is by Thomas Nast.  In it, Nast imagines what life will be like for freed slaves, after the war is over, compared to their lives before.

Click on the image to examine its detail.

Credits

Thomas Nast
Emancipation
Philadelphia: S. Bott, 1865
Wood engraving
Courtesy, Library of Congress