RALEIGH, N.C. – A haunting 150-year-old photo found in a North Carolina attic shows a young felonious newborn named John, barefoot and wearing on one's last legs clothes, perched on a barrel next to another unknown callow boy.
Art historians on it's an bloody rare Civilian War-era photograph of children who were either slaves at the time or recently emancipated.
The photo, which may bear been infatuated in the primitive 1860s, was a testament to a sombre region of American history, said Make Stapp, a precise historian and founding curator of the Federal Picture Gallery's photographs area at the Smithsonian Institution.
"It's a remarkably trying and sorrowful essay of American summary," he said. "What you are looking at when you look at this photo are two boys who were victims of that history."
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