The celebration of a year of learning by the emancipated Black children of New Orleans. Reconstruction began in New Orleans three years earlier than in many other parts of the South. The liberation of the city by Gen. Ben Butler in 1862 began the process even before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
Black Republican
Saturday, May 13, 1865
New Orleans, LA
Page: 2
Note: The feature illustration shows the Abraham Lincoln School for Freedmen in New Orleans published April 21, 1866 in Harper’s Weekly.
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