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- Harper's Weekly Cover, "The First Vote," November 16, 1867 - This 1867 issue of <em>Harper's Weekly</em> shows Black Americans lining up to cast their ballots. Congress had recently approved measures allowing African Americans the right to vote -- a right later ratified in the 15th Amendment. Southern states however worked to find ways to disenfranchise black voters; and by the end of the century had in large part succeeded.
- November 16, 1867
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Harper's Weekly Cover, "The First Vote," November 16, 1867
This 1867 issue of Harper's Weekly shows Black Americans lining up to cast their ballots. Congress had recently approved measures allowing African Americans the right to vote -- a right later ratified in the 15th Amendment. Southern states however worked to find ways to disenfranchise black voters; and by the end of the century had in large part succeeded.
- Wood Engraving, "Rice Culture on the Ogeechee, near Savannah, Georgia," 1867 - Rice grows best when fields are flooded at planting time and periodically during the growing season. Enslaved people built the infrastructure that rice required before the Civil War. This colorized illustration featured rice cultivation after Emancipation, with individuals at work in all stages of rice cultivation in an area of intensive rice cultivation, on the Ogeechee River near Savannah, Georgia.
- January 05, 1867
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Wood Engraving, "Rice Culture on the Ogeechee, near Savannah, Georgia," 1867
Rice grows best when fields are flooded at planting time and periodically during the growing season. Enslaved people built the infrastructure that rice required before the Civil War. This colorized illustration featured rice cultivation after Emancipation, with individuals at work in all stages of rice cultivation in an area of intensive rice cultivation, on the Ogeechee River near Savannah, Georgia.