Funeral, South Carolina, early 1890s

Description

A funeral procession, men and women lined up in pairs following the horse/mule-drawn hearse. Although several decades after emanciption, this scene may have bearing on the late ante-bellum period.

Source

Julian Ralph, Dixie; or, Southern Scenes and Sketches (New York, 1896), p. 273 (Special Collections, University of Virginia Library)

Language

English

Rights

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Identifier

Ralph01

Spatial Coverage

North America--South Carolina

Citation

"Funeral, South Carolina, early 1890s ", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed September 30, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1872
A funeral procession, men and women lined up in pairs following the horse/mule-drawn hearse. Although several decades after emanciption, this scene may have bearing on the late ante-bellum period.
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