Appearing to kneel on a chair, body and eyes turned away from the camera, in a dark-colored dress. At the bottom of the image the following is written: "Rebecca, An Emancipated Slave from New Orleans.' Carte de visite, 1863" Photographed by Kimball,477 Broadway, N.Y. Entered according to set of Congress in the year 1863, by P. Bacon in the Clerk's Office of the United States, for the Southern District of New York.

Rebecca, An Emancipated Slave from New Orleans. Creation: 1863. Photographer Kimball, M.H. Collection: Cartes de visite. Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

Rebecca Huger

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Rebecca:

Full name was Rebecca Huger, daughter of Mr. Huger with a light-skinned slave in his household. One of 17 house slaves owned by her father. Emancipated slave from Louisiana, enrolled in the first emancipated school in Louisiana for Blacks in 1863. Read and wrote after a few months in the school. Traveled to Philadelphia and New York along with seven other Black children to be photographed as part of a fund-raising campaign to support free education for Blacks between 1863-1864. Aged 11 during the campaign, still had a mother and grandmother living in New Orleans..

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