Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana--Also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves – Historic Print
(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: Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana--Also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana--Also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves
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Wilson Chinn, identified in the title as a branded slave from Louisiana, is the figure at the center of this portrait, posed beside the instruments of torture used to punish enslaved people. The print was made in New York City by the Kimball studio around 1863, and its copyright notice names George H. Hanks, who used images like this in antislavery lectures and exhibitions during the Civil War. Northern audiences were invited to examine the physical marks of slavery and the tools that enforced it, at a time when the war was forcing emancipation into public debate. The print shows how photographs were used as evidence in that argument.
| Created / published | c1863. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1860-1870.Photographic prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Photograph by Kimball, N.Y.C. Copyright by George H. Hanks. |
| Subjects | Chinn, Wilson. African Americans--Punishment & torture--1860-1870. Slavery--1860-1870. Punishment devices--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 983 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-161728 |
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