Title:
Midnight Shepherdess
Medium:
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Price
Not Specified
Dimensions
26.000 x 34.000 inches
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Description:
The escaping slaves have just crossed the border into Canada and they are celebrating their freedom. The chains are still visible, hanging from their wrists as some kneel and give prayerful thanks. The church, in the background, is in complete darkness, ensuring that they will not get accommodations there, since the church was in complicity with the institution of slavery. It was a monk, Batholomeo de Las Casas, who suggested the use of Africans as slaves. He later prayed that God would forgive him. As the slaves cross the barbed wire border, the image of Harriet Tubman - "theBlack Moses"- appears among them, her head adorned with the flag of the Union for which she served as a spy and recruiter of blacks as soldiers in the cause of national coherence, thus sealing her place in American "herstory" as an unsung national heroine.
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