'A Road-side Scene near Charleston', 1872. Poor blacks in South Carolina, USA. Slavery had only been abolished in 1863, fewer than ten years before this picture was made. From "Picturesque America; or, The Land We Live In, A Delineation by Pen and Pencil of the Mountains, Rivers, Illustrations on Steel and Wood by Eminent American Artists" Vol. I, edited by William Cullen Bryant. [D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1872]

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