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Mar 16, 2020 · We might categorise people as white, black or brown, but these visual variations don't accurately reflect the genetic differences - or rather similarities - between us.
- The Scourged Back
- Escaped Slaves
- Willis Winn, Aged 116
- Omar Ibn Said ‘Uncle Marian’
- Potato Picking on Hopkinson’s Plantation
- Auction & Negro Sales, Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864
- Unnamed Slave of Richard Townsend
- Former Slave Georgia Flournoy
- Demonstration of A Bell Rack
- ‘Old Aunt’ Julia Ann Jackson
Share icon This photo ‘The Scourged Back’ is one of the most well-known photographs from this period and was widely circulated by slavery abolitionists. It is one of the earliest examples of photography used as propaganda. The escaped slave’s name is Gordon, also known as ‘Whipped Peter’, showing his scarred back at a medical examination, Baton Rou...
Share icon Two unidentified escaped slaves wearing ragged clothes, photographed by McPherson & Oliver, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This photo was taken sometime during the Civil War of 1861-1865, though the exact date is unknown, and the caption on the reverse of the image reads ‘Contrabands just arrived’. Contraband was a term commonly used to describ...
Share icon This photo of Willis Winn was also taken by Russell Lee as part of the Federal Writers Project in April 1939, in Marshall, Texas. He is holding the horn used to call slaves to work every day, and claimed to be 116 years old when the photo was taken. He was born in Louisiana, a slave of Bob Winn, who Willis said taught him from his youth ...
Share icon Omar ibn Said was born in 1770, in what is now Senegal in West Africa. He was a well-educated man who received a formal Islamic education and spent 25 years of his life studying with prominent Muslim scholars in Africa, learning subjects ranging from arithmetic to theology. In 1807, Said was enslaved and transported to South Carolina in ...
Share icon This photo shows sweet potato planting on James Hopkinson’s Plantation, Edisto Island, South Carolina. It was taken on 8th April 1862 by Henry P Moore, a native of New Hampshire who travelled to South Carolina to document the Civil War. Early in the war Union gunboats bombarded the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Confeder...
Share icon This photograph is a view of Auction & Negro Sales, Whitehall Street, Atlanta, Georgia, 1864. It was captured by George N. Barnard, the official photographer of the Chief Engineer’s Office, during the Union occupation of Georgia. When in use, the auction house would have seen enslaved Africans inspected for sale, poked, prodded, and forc...
Share icon Pictured is an unnamed slave of Richard Townsend. The photo was taken at W.H. Ingram’s Photograph and Ferrotype Gallery, No. 11 West Gay Street, West Chester, Pennsylvania.
Share icon Former slave Georgia Flournoy is photographed outside her home, in Eufaula, Alabama on 27th April 1937. Georgia was interviewed by the Federal Writers project and she stated she was over 90 years old. She was born in Elmoreland, a plantation in Old Glenville, 17 miles north of Eufaula, and said that she never knew her mother as she died ...
Share icon Russell Lee also captured this image of Richbourg Gailliard, assistant to the director of the Federal Museum, Mobile Alabama, demonstrating a ‘Bell Rack’. This was a contraption used by an Alabama slave owner to guard a runaway slave. The rack was originally topped by a bell which rang when the runaway attempted to leave the road and go ...
Share icon Former slave ‘Old Aunt’ Julia Ann Jackson, aged 102 and the corn crib where she lived. This photo was taken in 1938, in El Dorado, Arkansas. She used the large battered tin can for a cooking stove. Anyone can write on Bored Panda. Start writing! Follow Bored Panda on Google News! Follow us on Flipboard.com/@boredpanda!
Mar 16, 2020 · How to argue with a racist: Five myths debunked. Stereotypes and myths about race abound, but this does not make them true. Often, these are not even expressed by overt racists. For many well ...
Mar 29, 2018 · Many churches and cultures do depict Jesus as a brown or black man. Orthodox Christians usually have a very different iconography to that of European art — if you enter a church in Africa, you ...
Apr 25, 2019 · In the mid-1990s, Kodak created a multiracial Shirley Card with three women, one black, one white, and one Asian, and later included a Latina model, in an attempt intended to help camera...
A hermit, also known as an eremite (adjectival form: hermitic or eremitic) or solitary, is a person who lives in seclusion. [1][2][3] Eremitism plays a role in a variety of religions. Description.
Nov 14, 2008 · However, an Israeli anthropologist researching the question has now made a surprising claim: the subjects of the Kingdom of Judea in the Second Temple Period looked more like black Africans. This theory arose after Prof. Yair Ben David of Tel-Aviv University conducted the first-ever facial reconstruction of its kind.
