"Kitchen Ball at White Sulphur Springs, Virginia", by Christian Mayr, 1838.
A celebration at a slave wedding
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KitchenBall.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_West_Virginia
http://kalamu.com/neogriot/2013/08/11/history-a-glance-at-antebellum-black-southern-life/
It was made by
Christian Friedrich Mayr, an academically trained artist from Germany
who immigrated to the United States in 1833. After stays in New York and
Boston, he lived and worked in South Carolina for several years.
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