“This 1861 Photo Looks Innocent – Until You See The Slave’s Hidden Hand Signal (163-Year Secret)”
A 1861 daguerreotype that hung in a Charleston museum for 17 years as a standard example of an antebellum Southern family portrait has been revealed to contain a hidden message encoded by an enslaved woman in the background. The photograph depicts James Whitfield, his wife Catherine, and their four-year-old daughter Caroline posed elegantly in their … Read more