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Seeing Slavery, Lulu Hamissou

Theses

This paper examines the resilience of Laura Clark, Carrie Davis, and Delia Garlic, three formerly enslaved women from Alabama whose memories and experiences during enslavement were part of a large slave narrative project called Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938. The design exhibition, Seeing Slavery, visually communicates and portrays the accounts and portraits of the three women. Printed and embroidered fabrics visually communicate the narrative stories of these women, while their portraits are made from screen printed acrylic glass.

Following an introduction, a literature review details the history of the three slave …

Negro Art, Vera H. Richards

Electronic Thesis and Dissertation

In recent years, especially in America, the Negro has been the subject of wide and varied discussions. These discussions concerns the intellectual and religious phases of his life. The Negro is inter-nationally known for his expression of music and poetry, especially for his of rhythmical phasing which is so essential to the above named arts in viewing the origin of the race. it is found that valuable material was contributed to humanity by the ancient Ethiopian tribes which the Negro has come