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Two African American women set up with washboard and tubs are apparently serving as laundresses for Union troops in this 1862 stereograph taken near Yorktown by photographer James F. Gibson. Former slaves who took refuge behind Union lines became known as contrabands, and many of them worked for wages for Union soldiers.
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