Tag: slavery

raveneuse:

• Carrie Mae Weems, detail from From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried, 1995.
• Scars of a whipped slave, Photo taken at Baton Rouge, Louisiana 1863. In his own words, “Overseer Artayou Carrier whipped me. I was two months in bed sore from the whipping. My master come after I was whipped; he discharged the overseer.”