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Picturesque Log Cabin.
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African-American in military coat with cape and wearing a grotesque gorilla head. A copy of this image is in the Library Company of Philadelphia and has the manuscript title “Intelligent Contraband.”
Teacher Fannie Langford teaching freed slaves how to read and write at the 1st school for freed slaves in South Carolina, The Hooper School on the Old Fort Plantation, Beaufort, S.C., Port Royal Island.
Signed on verso “Fannie Langford, Hooper School, Old Fort Plantation, Beaufort, S.C. Port Royal Island.” Written on bottom recto “My favorite pupil Uncle Smart Washington 71 yrs.”
Teacher Fannie Langford of the Hooper School on the Old Fort Plantation, Beaufort, S.C., Port Royal Island. First school for freed slaves in S.C.