As we transition from the Civil War to Civil Rights, consider how the following painting represents some of the challenges faced by the USA after the conflict. Examples lesson plans are linked to here.
Consider the perspective of this author while you view the Currier and Ives chromolithograph, “A Cotton Plantation on the Mississippi”. Then consider the viewpoint of Frederick Douglass, as expressed in his Narrative.
Why were some Northerners so hostile to freeing the enslaved people of the South?
A Currier & Ives chromolithograph from 1884.
