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Pictures of US emancipated slaves. The catch is that most were highly mixed for PR purposes. The dark haired child with ringlets is named Rebecca, she lived in her White father's house as an inhouse slave.
[url=http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2107458/The-white-slave-children-New-Orleans-Images-pale-mixed-race-slaves-used-drum-sympathy-funds-wealthy-donors-1860s.html]The 'white' slave children of New Orleans: Images of pale mixed race slaves used to drum up sympathy and funds from wealthy donors in 1860s | Mail Online[/url]
To keep Louisiana's schools - comprised of nearly 10,000 pupils and nearly half the state's number of black children - running, organisations launched a propaganda campaign. It was run by the National Freedman's Association, the American Missionary Association and officers from the Union Army.
They gathered five children - four with pale complexions - and three adults who had all been slaves and sent them to the North on a publicity tour, according to Celia Caust-Ellenbogen, author of White Slaves.
Joined by three former adult slaves - Wilson, Mary and Robert - and Colonel George Hanks of the Corps d'Afrique, they posed for photographs in New York and Philadelphia.
A story by Harper's Weekly at the time called the children 'perfectly white' and 'very fair'. It also noted the fifth child, Isaac, was 'a black boy of eight years; but none the less intelligent than his whiter companions'.