Freed Women

James E. Taylor.

"The Freedmen's Union Industrial School, Richmond, Va."

From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 22, 1866.

Copyprint. Prints and Photographs Division.

Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-33264 (5-5)

Northern teachers, many of whom were white women, traveled into the South to provide education and training for the newly freed population. Schools from the elementary level through college provided a variety of opportunities, from the rudiments of reading and writing and various types of basic vocational training to classics, arts, and theology. This school in Richmond shows women of color learning the fine points of sewing.