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April 22, 2017

A Black Man Cleaning the Sidewalk of Wall-Street, New York, USA, 1856

Free Black laborers played a central role in the economy of the Northern United States, as this image of a street cleaner on Wall Street shows.
The Illustrated London News, 27 September 1856. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.

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