Emancipation

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Detail from an 1863 Thomas Nast illustration depicting freedpeople after emancipation. Freedpeople set about defining the economic and social freedom they previously could only imagine.

Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1929.

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