"Rowdy" notions of emanicpation

Bildunterschrift: "The mob on the corner, below my house, had hung up a negro to the lamp-post. In mockery, a cigar was placed in his mouth. *** For hours these scared negroes poured up Twenty-seventh Street, passing my house. *** One old negro, 70 years old, blind as a bat, and such a cripple that he could hardly move, was led along by his equally aged wife with a few rags they had saved, trembli…