Marriage of a black soldier at Vicksburg by Chaplain Warren of the Freedmen's Bureau. After the Civil War, the Freedmen's Bureau legalized former slave marriages. Illustration from Harper's Weekly by Alfred R. Waud, June 30, 1866.

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