Despite its small size, this modest family portrait is monumental in its meaning—a poignant episode in the journey of African Americans. Harry and Eliza Stephens and their children—Quinn, Fanny, Ellen, Dora, and Tim—were enslaved at Liberty Hall, home of Alexander Hamilton Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy. Having survived slavery and the Civil War when so many other families were broken and dispersed, they present themselves as a proud, loving, and indivisible family unit. At the right edge, George, the gardener and stable man at the nearby Crawfordville School, holds a United States flag.