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Ex-slave Emma Crockett, about 80, Remembers learning to read in the 19C America
Emma said, "I wish I could read, but I wa'n't never l'arnt nothin''ceptin' atter Surrender Miss Sallie Cotes she showed us how to read printin', but I kain't read no writin."Photos and quotes of former...
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Log Cabin Yard Scene
Log Cabin Yard Scene by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams. Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during Reconstruction in...
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Ex-slave Ellen Payne, about 88, Remembers making extra money in 19C America
Ellen said, "They was allus plenty to eat and one nigger didn't do nothin' but raise gardens. They hunted coon and possum and rabbits with dogs and the white folks kilt deer and big game like that. My...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
From Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West. Cornelius Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, and...
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Ex-slave Penny Thompson, about 86, Remembers slave weddings in 19C America
Penny declared, "We has de weddin's too, but no preacher or cer'mony. When a man sees a girl him likes and de girl am willin', dey says dey wants a weddin'. De womens cooks extra and dey gits do cedar...
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Ironing before a Log Fire
Ironing before a Log Fire by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams. Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during...
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Women & Children on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by...
From Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West. Cornelius Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, and...
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Ex-slave Nicey Pugh, about 85, Remembers Clothes in 19C America
Nicey recalled, "...we jes had home made chothes an' shoes. De men wud shear de sheep and' us chilluns wud pick de burrs out ob de wool and den wash it an' spread it on de grass tuh dry, den we'd card...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
From Europe to the Atlantic coast of America & on to the Pacific coast during the 17C-19C, settlers moved West. Cornelius Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, and...
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Ex-slave Alice Houston, about 78, Remembers learning to read in 19C America
Alice recalled, "My white folks, dey tries to teach us to read and spell and write some and after ole marster move into town he lets us go to a real school. That's how come I can read so many docto'...
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19C Lyrical American Women by Tonalist Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938)
Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) The 1893 CarnationThomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938) Lady in Green 1910The paintings of Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851-1938), an American painter Tonalist born in Newton...
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Dwellings of African Americans before & after the Civil War
William Aiken Walker (American painter, 1839-1921) Cabin SceneThe dwellings of African Americans did not change dramatically after the Civil War, except that families usually occupied one cabin....
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
Cornelius Krieghoff (Dutch-born Canadian painter, 1815-1872) After the Ball, Chez JolifouCornelius Krieghoff 1815-1872 was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, & studied in...
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"Sold South" - Baltimore City Slave Trade
Baltimore City Slave TradeThe Baltimore Sun 20 June 1999, by Scott ShaneE. Sachse's view of Baltimore City looking west from Calvert Street on Market Street c 1850.ON JULY 24, 1863, three weeks after...
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American Families by Eastman Johnson (1824-1906)
Eastman Johnson (American painter, 1824-1906) was an American painter who helped establish the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Best known for his genre paintings of scenes from everyday...
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Celebrating in Pennsylvania 1810-1820 with John Lewis Krimmel 1786-1821
John Lewis Krimmel (German-born American artist, 1786-1821) The first known image of a Christmas tree in AmericaJohn Lewis Krimmel was born in Ebingen, Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1787, and accidently...
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An Old Irishman tells about Christmas in America in the 1850s-60s
Edward o'Neill born 1858 in Brookfield, MassachusettsRemembers Christmas past in 1938American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1940Interview by Louise G. Bassett for...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
Cornelius Krieghoff (Dutch-born Canadian painter, 1815-1872) Crossing the Saint Lawrence from Levis to Quebec on a SleighCornelius Krieghoff 1815-1872 was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years...
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Ex-slave Mariah Snyder, about 89, Remembers Religion in 19C America
Mariah related, "Master Sam had a colored man on the place that give us our A B C's. I'se still got mine, but warn't ever able to get any farther. There was a big pine arbor on the place where we...
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19C Southern Emancipated Slave Woman by William Aiken Walker 1839-1921
Freed Female Slave by William Aiken Walker (American genre artist, 1839-1921 best known for depicting poor black emancipated slaves in the post-Reconstruction American South.)
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