Rosa, Charley, Rebecca. Slave Children from New Orleans. Full-length albumen CDV studio portrait. New York: Chas. Paxson, n.d. Title and caption printed to mount recto. Publisher’s imprint, copyright statement, and charity statement printed to mount verso.

Part of a noted collection of photographs whose proceeds were “devoted to the education of Colored People in the department of the Gulf.” The portrait captures three children, "Rosa, Charley, and Rebecca," wrapped in the stars and stripes of the American flag.

This and other similar photos were produced by abolitionists as a way to raise money for “the education of colored people in the Department of the Gulf," which was, for a time, under the command of Union General Nathaniel P. Banks during the war. The decision to photograph light-skinned children was a deliberate choice, meant to stir the passions of white Americans undecided on the question of slavery.

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