Illustration at left shows a slave being sold
Illustration at left shows a slave being sold for stealing during the US Civil War. At right, after the war, a freedman is whipped as punishment for crime in 1866. In these images, Thomas Nast illustrates the failure of Andrew Johnsons lenient Presidential Reconstruction, which did not protect Freedmen from white supremacists
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13124888
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45373115
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3000px x 1976px
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Credit
Mary Evans / The Everett Collection
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Courtesy Everett Collection
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Codes Confederate Enslaved Ex-slave Formerly Freedman Injustice Lcgr1907 Lcgr2019 Nast Oppression Repression Supremacist Supremacy
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