"A Slave Cabin - 'Got Any Pies For Sale, Aunty'," Edwin Forbes, copper plate etching, 1876

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 19, 2013.
Depicted ContentCivil War Soldiering
Depicted ContentSlavery
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engraving
Original caption
A party straggling from the line of march in search of luxuries of the season.
Source citation
Edwin Forbes, Life Studies of the Great Army, A Historical Work of Art in Copper-Plate Etching ...(New York: Edwin Forbes, 1876), plate 10.
Source note
Cropped from the larger image, also available here.
Privately published. The complete set of forty plates sold for $50.00 in 1876. 
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