EMANCIPATED SLAVES BROUGHT FROM NEW ORLEANS BY COL. GEORGE H. HANKS
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AUGUSTA BROUJEY is nine years old. Her mother, who is almost white, was owned by her half-brother, named Solamon, who still retained two of her children. WILSON CHINN is about 60 years old. He was raised by Isaac Howard of Woodford County, Kentucky. When 21 years old he was taken down the river and sold to Volsey B. Marmillion, a sugar planter about 45 miles above New Orleans. This man was accustomed to branding his negroes, and Wilson has on his forehead the letters V. B. M. Of the 210 slaves on this plantation 105 left at one time and came into the Union camp. Thirty of them had been branded like cattle with a hot iron, four of them on the forehead, and the others on the breast or arm.
In his negative, Kimball retouched the brand on Wilson Chinns forehead to make the initials appear more visible on the print.
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EMANCIPATED SLAVES BROUGHT FROM NEW ORLEANS BY COL. GEORGE H. HANKS
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