Note
Free Negroes in the North, 1863 was created by the German born artist John Adalbert Volck who resided in Balitmore, Md. during the American Civil War. Etchings depict graphic scenes related to the war with each sketch part of a set of 30 from a book titled Sketches from the Civil War in North America, 1861, ’62, ’63 / by V. Blada.. Adalbert J. Volck went under the pseudynom of V. Blada. Free Negroes in the North, 1863 is a sketch of a man giving a beggar money.