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Image of a detail from Thomas Nast's famous wood engraving entitled "Emancipation," which originally appeared in Harper's Weekly on January 24, 1863. An African American mother is standing outside her home and her children are headed to school. The public school stands in the background.The liberation of Georgia's more than 400,000 slaves began during the chaos of the Civil War and continued well into 1865. Nast's cartoon aimed to arouse sympathy for freed blacks following emancipation.
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