Image Gallery (12 total)
Contraband on Cairo Levee
1963
Sophie Wessel
DuSable Museum of African American History
Harriet Tubman
c. 1963
R. Furan
DuSable Museum of African American History
Harriet Tubman
1964
Shirley Firestone
DuSable Museum of African American History
Members of Morgan's Raiders at Camp Douglas
1864
Unknown Artist
Chicago History Museum
Tags: camp life, Chicago, Confederate, escape, Illinois, photographs, portraits, prison, soldiers, The Northern Homefront, Union
Old Virginia Home
1864
David Gilmour Blythe
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Freedman
1862/63
John Quincy Adams Ward
The Art Institute of Chicago
The Fugitives are Safe in a Free Land
1852
Hammatt Billings
The Newberry Library
Resurrection of Henry Box Brown
1872
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library
Negroes Leaving Their Home
April 9, 1864
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library
The Escaped Slave
July 2, 1864
T. B. Bishop (Photographer)
The Newberry Library
Eliza's Flight: A Scene from Uncle Tom's Cabin
1852
Unknown Artist
The Newberry Library
Contrabands Coming into Camp in Consequence of the Proclamation
January 31, 1863
Alfred R. Waud
The Newberry Library