We Till Our Own Fields. Detail from The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870

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Title

We Till Our Own Fields. Detail from The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870

Subject

African Americans, labor

Description

In this detail of his lithograph celebrating the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment, James Carter Beard illustrated the ability that the freedpeople had to control their own labor and acquire their own land after emancipation.

Creator

James Carter Beard

Source

Library of Virginia, Prints and Photographs Division

Publisher

Thomas Kelly

Date

1870-1871

Contributor

Library of Virginia

Rights

CC BY-SA

Format

JPG

Type

Lithograph

Coverage

United States

Citation

James Carter Beard, “We Till Our Own Fields. Detail from The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870,” Remaking Virginia: Transformation Through Emancipation, accessed March 29, 2024, https://www.virginiamemory.com/online-exhibitions/items/show/525.