Charley, a slave boy from New Orleans'
Photographer: Charles Paxson. Date Taken: c1864.
Photograph shows a full-length portrait of freed slave, Charles Taylor, sitting, facing front. The United States flag is draped on the floor next to him. Charles Taylor, a fair-skinned boy propagandized for emancipation from slavery, is depicted in an anti-slavery painting. After being freed in New Orleans by Union General Butler, the youngster traveled the North with other emancipated individuals to seek money for schools for former slaves in Louisiana that Assistant Superintendent of Freedmen Philip Bacon had founded. One of three traveling youngsters who were turned away from a Philadelphia hotel in December 1863 was Taylor, the son of his owner. Entered, according to act of Congress, in the year 1864, by S. Tackaberry, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. for the Southern District of New-York" printed on back of the mount. "The nett [sic] 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 Maj. Gen Banks" printed on back of the mount. Caption below image: "Freedom's banner".
Citation: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
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