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Women Processing Cotton in 19C Reconstruction South Carolina
Cotton Picking After Slavery - Six African American Women in a Cotton Field by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams Mary Lyde Hicks William (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
Cornelius Krieghoff was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, and studied in Rotterdam & Dusseldorf. He traveled to the United States in the 1830s, where he served in the Army...
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Ex-slave Frances Black, about 87, Remembers 19C America
Francis remembered, "I was born in Grand Bluff, in Mississippi, on Old Man Carlton's plantation, and I was stole from my folks when I was a li'l gal and never seed them no more. Us kids played in the...
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Ex-slave Charlotte Beverly, about 90, Remembers 19C America
Charlotte explained, "The white folks had interes' in they cullud people where I live. Sometimes they's as many as fifty cradle with little nigger babies in 'em and the mistus, she look after them and...
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The Peacock Broom
PEACOCK BROOM IN THE DINING ROOM by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams. Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during...
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Maggie during Reconstruction
PORTRAIT OF MAGGIE by Mary Lyde Hicks William. Mary Lyde Hicks William (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during Reconstruction in...
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Collard Greens as Natural Cure for a Headache
WOMAN WITH COLLARD LEAF ON HER HEAD TO CURE A HEADACHE by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams. Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's...
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Ex Slave Lou Williams Remembers 19C America
Ex Slave Lou Williams, nearly 100 years oldLou explained, "We had big gardens and lots of vegetables to eat, 'cause massa had 'bout 800 slaves and 'bout a 1,000 acres in he plantation. In summer time...
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Women on the North American Canadian Frontier in 19C - by Dutch-born...
Cornelius Krieghoff (Dutch-born Canadian painter, 1815-1872) Indian Woman Moccasin SellerCornelius Krieghoff 1815-1872 was born in Amsterdam, spent his formative years in Bavaria, & studied in...
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North Carolina Corn Shucking in the Moonlight
Corn Shucking in the Moonlight by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams. Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during...
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Ex-slave Betty Powers, about 80, Remembers owners having sex with any slave...
Betty said, "Did we'uns have weddin's? White man, you knows better'n dat. Dem times, cullud folks em jus' put together. De massa say, 'Jim and Nancy, you go live together.' and when dat order give, it...
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Portrait of Edith
PORTRAIT OF EDITH by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams. Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during Reconstruction in...
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Ex-Slave Mary Crane Remembers giving a slave to each newlywed daughter in 19C...
Mary explained, "In those days, slave owners, whenever one of their daughters would get married, would give her and her husband a slave as a wedding present, usually allowing the girl to pick the one...
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Portrait of Mary Lyde Faison
MARY LYDE FAISON IN PENSIVE MOOD by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams. Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during...
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Fighting for Equality - Abby Hadassah Smith (1797-1878) & Julia Evelina...
Born today in 1797, Abby Hadassah Smith (1797-1878) & her sister Julia Evelina Smith, (1792-1886). The sisters were American suffragists who relentlessly protested for their property & voting...
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North Carolina Quilting Party
North Carolina Quilting Party by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams. Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during...
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Ex-slave Anne Maddox, about 100, Remembers eating milk & ash cake out of a...
Ann remembered, "Bout four o'clock in de evenin' all de little niggers was called in de big yard where de cook had put milk in a long an den trough an' crumbled ash-cake in it. Us had pot licker in a...
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Portrait of Julia Faison
JULIA FAISON WITH BOUQUET by Mary Lyde Hicks Williams. Mary Lyde Hicks Williams (1866-1959) Mary's paintings of freed slaves reflected daily life she saw on her uncle's plantation during...
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Ex-slave Ellen Butler, about 78, Remembers praying for freedom in 19C America
Ellen related, "Massa never 'lowed us slaves go to church but they have big holes in the fields they gits down in and prays. They done that way 'cause the white folks didn't want them to pray. They...
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