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1864 FREED SLAVE. Young Slave Freed by Emancipation Proclamation. Photographed as a White Child. Miracles For scholars of early AmericanA very desirable carte de visite photograph issued in the aftermath of the Emancipation Proclamation in New Orleans. The city had been captured during 1863, and with the Proclamation, northern missionaries and educators descended on the city to immediately begin schools for the young "contraband." Photographs of the children were sold and distributed to raise funds for the schools. The young former slaves were often intentionally photographed and