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Diorama of a du dance party (ca. early 1800s) by Gerrit Schouten.
Source: Rijksmuseum
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bd476195-e60a-4c4e-866c-51f35c08f657
#models #thatched-rooves #performances #indigenous #dancing #dutch #dioramas #slavery #wind-instruments #art #publicdomain
He worked where the dead were—digging graves, clearing cemeteries—and when he wasn’t working, he was parked on a wooden bench or a windowsill along Market Street, water jug beside him, boots set firm as though they’d never move.
When I was 7, he was ancient. https://www.texasobserver.org/snow-on-market-street/
#culture #history #Texas #slavery #racism #politics #USpol #NorthTexas
Diorama of a du dance party (ca. early 1800s) by Gerrit Schouten.
Source: Rijksmuseum
Available to buy as a print.
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bd476195-e60a-4c4e-866c-51f35c08f657
#models #thatched-rooves #performances #indigenous #dancing #dutch #dioramas #slavery #wind-instruments #art #publicdomain
Today in honor of Black History Month, we remember Frederick Douglass, who died on this date, February 20, 1895. In an 1857 address Douglass said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
After escaping slavery, Douglass became a national leader of the abolition movement. He also supported the women’s suffrage movement and ran for vice president as running mate to Victoria Woodhull on the Equal Rights Party ticket. In addition to being a brilliant orator, writer and social justice activist, Douglass was also the single most photographed man of the 19th century. He sat for over 160 portraits, always taking a dignified pose. He considered photography a tool for creating a positive image of black men. (Check out the graphic novel about Frederick Douglass by comic book artist extraordinaire, David Walker).
#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #abolition #freedom #FrederickDouglass #blackhistorymonth #photography #books #graphicnovel #author #write #BlackMastodon
He worked where the dead were—digging graves, clearing cemeteries—and when he wasn’t working, he was parked on a wooden bench or a windowsill along Market Street, water jug beside him, boots set firm as though they’d never move.
When I was 7, he was ancient. https://www.texasobserver.org/snow-on-market-street/
#culture #history #Texas #slavery #racism #politics #USpol #NorthTexas
From our magazine: "The first time I ever heard the word 'slavery,' it came from Snow. It had never been taught in school, never been spoken of in my house. I didn’t know what it meant, only that it was serious and true. And it stamped itself on me." https://www.texasobserver.org/snow-on-market-street/
From our magazine: "The first time I ever heard the word 'slavery,' it came from Snow. It had never been taught in school, never been spoken of in my house. I didn’t know what it meant, only that it was serious and true. And it stamped itself on me." https://www.texasobserver.org/snow-on-market-street/
Today in honor of Black History Month, we remember Frederick Douglass, who died on this date, February 20, 1895. In an 1857 address Douglass said, "If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will."
After escaping slavery, Douglass became a national leader of the abolition movement. He also supported the women’s suffrage movement and ran for vice president as running mate to Victoria Woodhull on the Equal Rights Party ticket. In addition to being a brilliant orator, writer and social justice activist, Douglass was also the single most photographed man of the 19th century. He sat for over 160 portraits, always taking a dignified pose. He considered photography a tool for creating a positive image of black men. (Check out the graphic novel about Frederick Douglass by comic book artist extraordinaire, David Walker).
#workingclass #LaborHistory #slavery #abolition #freedom #FrederickDouglass #blackhistorymonth #photography #books #graphicnovel #author #write #BlackMastodon
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🏙️🕯️ For nearly 200 years, an #EastVillage rowhouse at 29 East 4th Street kept a heroic secret hidden within its walls.
Historians recently confirmed that a narrow shaft hidden below built-in drawers was designed to hide freedom seekers on the #UndergroundRailroad. Built in 1832 by hatter Joseph Brewster, the site is a rare physical trace of the abolitionist movement in a pro-slavery era.
#architecture #building #discovery #furniture #history #house #manhattan #museum #newyork #nyc #news #slavery #tksst #video
💁🏻♀️ ICYMI: 🏙️🕯️ For nearly 200 years, an #EastVillage rowhouse at 29 East 4th Street kept a heroic secret hidden within its walls.
Historians recently confirmed that a narrow shaft hidden below built-in drawers was designed to hide freedom seekers on the #UndergroundRailroad. Built in 1832 by hatter Joseph Brewster, the site is a rare physical trace of the abolitionist movement in a pro-slavery era.
#architecture #building #discovery #furniture #history #house #manhattan #museum #newyork #nyc #news #slavery #tksst #video
