Celebration of Emancipation

Thomas Nast.

Emancipation.

Philadelphia: S. Bott, 1865.

Wood engraving.

Prints and Photographs Division.

Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-2573 (5-9)

Thomas Nast's depiction of emancipation at the end of the Civil War envisions the future of free blacks in the U.S. and contrasts it with various cruelties of the institution of slavery.