Emancipated Afro-Americans celebrate in 1865 after Congress passed the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which abolished slavery. An engraving by Amand Jacob after a work by Frederic Lix which appeared in the July 23-30 edition of the French magazine Le Journal Illustre.

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