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Title
The Holy Ordinances of Religion Are Free. Detail from The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870
            Subject
African Americans, religion
            Description
In this detail of his lithograph celebrating the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, James Carter Beard illustrated the ability of African Americans to take the pulpit and pastor churches in the South, where they had long been denied that right prior to 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
            Identifier
15 Amendment DET Church 13_1162_009
            Coverage
United States
            