'Plantation Police, or Home Guard, Examining Passes on the Road Leading to the Levee   Save
National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center
Description: Sketch of Confederate Home Guard checking passes of enslaved and freed African Americans on a road in the Confederate South during the Civil War by artist F. B. Schell. Caption reads: "The colored people were used, whenever possible, by the Union authorities to furnish information from across the lines, hence great vigilance was exercised by the Confederates to prevent slaves not loyal to the South from passing to the Union camps." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_OVS21_D08_F021
Subjects: African American men; Slavery; Civil War 1861-1865; Confederate States of America
Places: National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center