18thVirginia
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- Joined
- Sep 8, 2012
Easter has always seemed a time of new life, new beginnings to me. March is Women's History Month, so I thought photos of some women whose lives had definite new beginnings with the freedom that the Civil War brought would be in order for Easter.
At a class on Literature and the Law, a professor from the University of Alabama noted that in the South, the most beautiful flowers were often in the yards of the South's poorest neighborhoods. I've noticed that many of the photos of former slaves from the WPA Slave Narratives have flowers or gardens in them and since I associate Easter with flowers, I thought to include some in this thread. (The photos are from my personal collection).
You might recognize this, it's Dorothea Lange's "Ex-Slave with a Long Memory." http://b0.us.is.pp.ru/s/staren/0/42110210JGl.jpg
You may not be so familiar with this view. http://indulgy.com/post/u1TGWkH2l2/dorothea-lange-exslave-alabama
At a class on Literature and the Law, a professor from the University of Alabama noted that in the South, the most beautiful flowers were often in the yards of the South's poorest neighborhoods. I've noticed that many of the photos of former slaves from the WPA Slave Narratives have flowers or gardens in them and since I associate Easter with flowers, I thought to include some in this thread. (The photos are from my personal collection).
You might recognize this, it's Dorothea Lange's "Ex-Slave with a Long Memory." http://b0.us.is.pp.ru/s/staren/0/42110210JGl.jpg
You may not be so familiar with this view. http://indulgy.com/post/u1TGWkH2l2/dorothea-lange-exslave-alabama
Bringing the