We Till Our Own Fields. Detail from The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870
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Title
We Till Our Own Fields. Detail from The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870
Subject
African Americans, labor
Description
In this detail of his lithograph celebrating the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, James Carter Beard illustrated the ability that the freedpeople had to control their own labor and acquire their own land after emancipation.
Creator
James Carter Beard
Source
Library of Virginia, Prints and Photographs Division
Publisher
Thomas Kelly
Date
1870-1871
Contributor
Library of Virginia
Rights
CC BY-SA
Format
JPG
Type
Lithograph
Coverage
United States
Citation
James Carter Beard, “We Till Our Own Fields. Detail from The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870,” Remaking Virginia: Transformation Through Emancipation, accessed December 4, 2024, https://virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/items/show/525.