Three Children romp in the chilly water at Morro Bay

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Three Children romp in the chilly water at Morro Bay




Image by mikebaird

Three Children romp in the chilly water and run on wet sand making reflections. Warm winter day on the Morro Bay, CA Morro Strand State Beach 29 Jan. 2009. Photo by Michael "Mike" L. Baird bairdphotos.com, Canon 1D Mark III w/ Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6L IS USM Telephoto Zoom Lens with circular polarizer (which made a dramatic difference in contrast here) and handheld.

SLAVES, EX-SLAVES, and CHILDREN OF SLAVES IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, 1860 -1900 (7)




Image by Okinawa Soba

"Uncle Gabriel's Cabin" in South Carolina. Master in the big house in the distance.

Once "freed", many of the former slaves and their children had no where to go. These are the houses built mostly during the "Slave Years" --- before the Civil War, and Lincoln's "Emancipation Proclamation" .

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"......On Tuesday, July 30, 2008, the U.S. House of Representatives issued an unprecedented apology to black Americans for the institution of slavery, and the subsequent Jim Crows laws that for years discriminated against blacks as second-class citizens in American society......" NPR

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Okinawa_Soba has a lot original images of the descendants of slaves in America, as well as several showing actual slaves who were "freed" during the America's Civil War.

To match these images, he also has a box of 19th Century and early 20th Century images of "Black Africa", showing the tribes, roots, and culture that is now a universe away from the modern day existence of "African Americans".

Behind the faces of these few images I'm posting here, are lives and experiences that most White people in America will never understand -- either then, or now.

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NYC - Fort Tryon Park: The Cloisters - Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon




Image by wallyg

Virgin and Child on a Crescent Moon
Austria (now Italy)

This high-relief sculpture was undoubtedly the focal point of a large shrine flanked by carved or painted shutters, a common Late Gothic altar arrangement in Southern Germany and in Austria. The image of the Virgin on a crescent moon reflects the vision of St. John told in Revelation 12:1: "a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon was under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head." The background of the lost shrine may have been decorated with golden rays to suggest the sun. The orb held by Christ signifies his role as spiritual ruler of the world while the grapes symbolize his Passion. The singular, deeply cut drapery and smoothly rounded faces while suggesting the influence of the Swabian master Hans Mulescher anticipates the style of the next generation of Tirolean sculptors, particularly Hans Klocke.

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The Cloisters, a branch of the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art dedicated to the art and architecture of the European Middle Ages, is located in Fort Tryon Park near the northern tip of Manhattan island on a hill overlooking the Hudson River. The Cloisters collection contains approximately five thousand European medieval works of art, with a particular emphasis on pieces dating from the twelfth through the fifteen centuries.