{"id":2308,"date":"2020-07-02T02:15:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T02:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2020-08-01T19:06:23","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T19:06:23","slug":"photographs-of-wartime-contrabands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/photographs-of-wartime-contrabands\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographs of Wartime Contrabands"},"content":{"rendered":"

c. 1862, Contrabands at Camp Brightwood<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Young liberated men behind Union lines near Washington, D.C., c. 1862 (Library of Congress) Photographer unknown.<\/p><\/div>\n

1862 || Working at General Lafayette’s <\/strong>Headquarters in Virginia<\/h2>\n
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A group of freed people behind Union lines, near Yorktown, Virginia, May 1862. (Library of Congress) Photograph taken by John F. Gibson.<\/p><\/div>\n

1862\u00a0 || Gathering Outside at Cumberland Landing, Virginia<\/h2>\n
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A group of liberated people outside Foller\u2019s house in Cumberland Landing, Virginia in 1862. (Library of Congress) Photograph taken by James F. Gibson.<\/p><\/div>\n

1862 || Contrabands in Virginia<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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Two freed men sitting in front of a tent in Culpeper, Virginia in 1862. (Library of Congress) Photograph taken by Timothy H. O’Sullivan.<\/p><\/div>\n

1863 || Photograph of Gordon, Formerly Enslaved Man<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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The scourged back of Gordon, a runaway slave, whose photograph was taken at a Union camp in 1863. (The Metropolitan\u00a0 Museum of Art)\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n

c. 1864 || Contrabands in army uniforms<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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A group of freed African American men gathered and dressed in Union army uniforms, c. 1864. (Library of Congress) Photographer unknown.<\/p><\/div>\n

1865, Gathering in Richmond, Virginia<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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A group of freedmen gathered near a canal at Haxall\u2019s Mill in Richmond Virginia in 1865. (Library of Congress) Photograph taken by Alexander Gardner.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

c. 1862, Contrabands at Camp Brightwood 1862 || Working at General Lafayette’s Headquarters in Virginia 1862\u00a0 || Gathering Outside at Cumberland Landing, Virginia 1862 || Contrabands in Virginia 1863 || Photograph of Gordon, Formerly Enslaved Man c. 1864 || Contrabands in army uniforms 1865, Gathering in Richmond, Virginia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20770],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-images-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2532,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions\/2532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/stampedes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}