15 februari 2017

Wilson Chinn

Image source - Civil War Image Database, Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War, Virginia Center for Digital History, University of Virginia
(http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/images_search_results.html?q=db:images).
Image date - 00-00-1863
Source - U. S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks
Subject type - African Americans
Title - Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana, also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves