Reconstruction Images

Map of states that seceded from the Union in 1861.

Reconstruction governments in the South, 1866-1877.

Elderly black man with spectacles reading a newspaper by candlelight. Watercolor, circa 1863. Henry L. Stephens, artist.

James E. Taylor. "The Freedmen's Union Industrial School, Richmond, Va."From Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, September 22, 1866.

The arrival of a fugitive slave family behind Union lines: 1 January 1863.

A former slave with the horn with which slaves were called. Near Marshall, Texas.