A carte-de-visite showing a group of slaves meeting by torchlight in a cabin to wait for 1 January 1863 when the Emancipation Proclamation was issued. A sign reads 1 Jan-Slaves Forever Free. It is titled in links of chain at the side Waiting for the Hour - Watch Meeting Dec 31, 1862. By Heard & Mosely, Boston.

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