Jacob Lawrence
We started a study of the Civil War in class.
Jacob Lawrence was an artist who painted pictures of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Period.
This is a runaway slave turned Union calvaryman. He's holding a sword charging the enemy.
Slaves are carrying baskets of cotton to the cotton gin.
Riots happened when ex-slaves went north and took the jobs of the northerners.
Jacob Lawrence was an artist who painted pictures of the Civil War and the Reconstruction Period.
Jacob Lawrence
Students
These slaves are treated unfairly. They feel forgotten.
Northerners gave slaves jobs on the railroad after the war.
The Door to Freedom
In the north, the slaves had new opportunities for jobs and one was working on the railroad. Northerners also traveled during the war by walking on the railroad tracks.
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