File:Free Negroes in the North.jpg

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English: A street scene showing destitute African Americans begging (a white man offers a "tract on slavery" rather than money), and others inhabiting a rundown "Colored Men's Home" where dancing, drinking, and fighting take place. Etching.
Date 1863, Baltimore
Source Library of Congress
Author Adalberg John Volck, 1828-1912

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