Close

April 22, 2017

View of a Street of Baltimore, Maryland, USA, 1856

At the crossroads of the slaveholding south and the largely free north, Baltimore emerged as an Industrial city that captured both potentialities of a slave-holding city and a free, industrial city.
The Illustrated London News, 27 September 1856. Courtesy of University of Missouri Libraries.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *