Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia by the Colored People
Description
This image shows a large crowd of people gathered in celebration in Washington, D.C. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City and published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916. It featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects and humor, alongside illustrations. It covered the American Civil War extensively, including many illustrations of events from the war.
Source
Harper's Weekly (May 12, 1866), vol. 10, p.300.
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
HW0037
Spatial Coverage
North America--Washington D.C.
Item sets
Citation
"Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia by the Colored People", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed December 1, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/535
