[Journey of a slave from the plantation to the battlefield] – Antique Print
![[Journey of a slave from the plantation to the battlefield], [ca. 1863] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f8/f80a96f1cd0f-L.webp)
(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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[Journey of a slave from the plantation to the battlefield] comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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[Journey of a slave from the plantation to the battlefield]
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Rather than showing a battle, this chromolithograph follows one figure from plantation labor toward military service, a progression the title, devised by Library staff, describes as a journey. It is attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens and dates to about 1863, the year the Emancipation Proclamation took effect and Black men were being recruited into Union regiments. Prints of this kind were meant to argue for freedom and for the place of Black soldiers in the Union cause. It was later shown at the Virginia Historical Society in the exhibition *American Visions of Liberty and Freedom*.
| Created / published | [ca. 1863] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | VA |
| Notes | Title devised by Library staff. Attributed to James Queen after Henry Louis Stephens. Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Visions of Liberty and Freedom" at Virginia Historical Society |
| Subjects | African Americans--History--1860-1870. African Americans--Military service--1860-1870. Slavery--1860-1870. Liberty--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,816 × 4,681 px · prints to 13 × 16 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-220233 |
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