Friday, April 25, 2014

A celebration at a slave wedding

"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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