{"id":5683,"date":"2011-07-08T10:18:52","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T10:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/162.241.171.69\/~afroamcivilwar\/website\/?p=5683"},"modified":"2025-06-18T12:05:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T12:05:53","slug":"african-american-civil-war-museum-celebrates-reopening-in-larger-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/african-american-civil-war-museum-celebrates-reopening-in-larger-location\/","title":{"rendered":"African American Civil War Museum Celebrates Reopening in Larger Location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1862, Abraham Lincoln went to visit Camp Barker, a contraband camp just south of U Street NW where freed and escaped slaves found sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 150 years later, a photograph of camp residents \u2014 the slaves themselves were considered contraband of war \u2014 hangs in a museum in that same neighborhood. It shows the campers lined up, holding their hymnals and waiting for the president on a summer day.<\/p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/style\/african-american-civil-war-museum-celebrates-reopening-in-larger-location\/2011\/06\/30\/gIQApPjb1H_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" role=\"button\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\tRead Full Story\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1862, Abraham Lincoln went to visit Camp Barker, a contraband camp just south of U Street NW where freed and escaped slaves found sanctuary.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 150 years later, a photograph of camp residents \u2014 the slaves themselves were considered contraband of war \u2014 hangs in a museum in that same neighborhood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5683"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21090,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5683\/revisions\/21090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afroamcivilwar.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}