Contrabands escaping [by boat] to the United States bark KINGFISHER, off the coast of Florida – Antique Wall Art
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(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Contrabands escaping [by boat] to the United States bark KINGFISHER, off the coast of Florida, preserved in this antique engraving. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Contrabands escaping [by boat] to the United States bark KINGFISHER, off the coast of Florida
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Enslaved people escaping by boat toward the United States bark *Kingfisher* off the Florida coast is the subject of this wood engraving. By 1862 the Union navy's blockade of Southern ports had placed warships along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, and Union commanders increasingly treated fugitives who reached their lines as contraband of war rather than returning them to their owners. The picture ran in *Harper's Weekly* on July 12, 1862, one of the popular illustrated weeklies that brought images of the war to Northern readers, and it reflects how the changing Union policy toward escaped slaves was becoming a matter of public attention.
| Created / published | 1862 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 6, (1862 July 12), p. 444. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,134 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-160301 |
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