I like how the boy in pic 16 looks like any kid from today really. The others pose very stiffly but he has his arm at the side sporting a little attitude. I like it. Normally in pics like these there's no clue to what the person was like in real life, but that kid looks completely normal and natural.

Isaura

This is interesting. Thanks for the post!

The first of many benefits of miscegenation. Let's all mix, and be happy!

Augusta is givin u face!!! Can't u see!?
Ok snark ended. My real post is: dude this makes me sad.

Breaks my heart to see this.

Ps knock off that Lin bs. he's the vanilla ice of the Knicks.

Does anyone else think these kids would be great for a horror movie?

Republican propaganda

If this was supposed to be a cuteness campaign, yeah, they probably would have had me convinced with Charley's precious little face. It seems twisted to us now, but it was certainly a smart campaign in appealing to people's natural predilection to favor those who 'look like them'.

Completely OT, but those clothes need to come back in style. SO pretty.

So.. the white slaves were forced to be models and the black ones had to do all the work? I can believe that.

I wonder where they all ended up?

This is so surreal. What a strange, new light it sheds on the whole issue (new to me, at least - I had no idea these photos existed before).  It's like a Twilight Zone episode where everything is reversed; it highlights how bizarre the notion of anybody “owning” another person is… not that that even should need to be stated.

interesting