Exhibit:

The Voices of African American Women

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Part of Group:

Thiel College ENG 235 Sp24

When it comes to your everyday history courses, most of the time African American history is glossed over and never talked about. But when African American history is talked about most of the time it is concerning African American males, so with that in mind I decided to take a different route and focus on the African American women and their voices and accompolishments throughout history. 

Images in this Exhibit

Slave Auction

     When it comes to the slave auction and the slave trade a lot of the time it is a point in history on which no one wants to cover. But the slave trade is a very important part in history, and the artwork that I chose to focus on is the sculpture called “Realization” by Augusta Savage, and this sculpture portrays the realization of an African American couple realizing that they were just bought in the slave auction. When looking at the picture we can see an African American man sitting next to his significant other curled up to her, with a face of fear. The woman can be seen sitting and...
African American Neighborhoods

The artwork that I chose to interpret is the drawing of Bronzeville neighborhood, which is about Chicago’s historically black neighborhood. The painting is called “Black Belt” by Archibald Motley in 1934 and the painting shows the diversity and motion that comes with the black urban life. When looking at the piece of artwork the colors and the life in the picture can show the lively hood of the neighborhood and the colors that he chooses to use in this drawing shows the happiness and freedom in the neighborhood. When connecting it to a literary text I chose the poem “Primer for Blacks” by...
The Slave Bible

I chose to do a picture of the slave bible, because I think it is a very difficult but interesting topic to discuss. The slave bible was a bible given to the slaves that cut out a lot of the Old Testament and the revised Bible was given to the slaves to make them obey their masters and never question if their masters were doing the right things or not. The literary texts that I chose to correlate this to is the poem written by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper called, “Bible Defense of Slavery”. Her poem talks about the reverend and how he is defending slavery and how individuals are using the...