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Photographer: Library of Congress
Caption: Slave Pen
Alexandria, Virginia
Additional Description: Interior view created between 1861 and 1869 Be it imprisoned in a jail cell or held in a pen awaiting auction, the outcome for a fugitive slave was the same: a life of hard labor in the Deep South.
Submitted: June 12, 2018, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p430357
File Size: 3.152 Megabytes

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