Rebecca: A slave girl from New Orleans

Rebecca: A slave girl from New Orleans

Paxson, Chas. (Charles), -1880

1864

Abolitionist portrait of the propagandized fair-skinned child emancipated from enslavement, Rebecca Huger. Depicts a bust-length portrait of Huger attired in a crocheted jacket and bonnet. Freed by Union General Butler in New Orleans, the child toured through the North with other people emancipated from enslavement to raise funds for the schools of Louisiana for the formerly enslaved established by Philip Bacon, Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen. Huger, daughter of her enslaver, was one of three touring children denied entrance to a Philadelphia hotel in December 1863.; Chas. Paxson, photographer, N.Y.; Title from item.; Date from copyright information and content.; Distributor's imprint printed on verso: N.B. - All orders must be addressed to H.N. Bent, [National Freedman's Relief Association], Box 809, P.O. Boston, Mass.; Printed on verso: The nett proceeds from the sale of these Photographs will be devoted to the education of Colored people in the department of the Gulf, now under the command of Major General Banks.

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Albumen prints -- 1860-1870

Anti-slavery photographs -- 1860-1870

Cartes de visite -- 1860-1870

Portrait photographs -- 1860-1870

Huger, Rebecca, approximately 1852- -- Portraits

African American girls -- Portraits

Antislavery movements -- United States

Freedmen -- Education -- Louisiana

Racially mixed people

Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States