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American Story 1877 |
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Mixed Media |
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20 x 6 x 11 in |
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Commentary: This is another work in Kat Flyn's American Story series which attempts to portray a sense of the hardship endured by Black Americans as ex-slaves. She chose the year 1877 because it marks the year Reconstruction ended as part of the compromise of 1877, and with it the promises of emancipation and the 13, 14, and 15th Amendments were broken. The old gentleman portrayed by the stone carving in the back of this work almost certainly would have been born a slave and his life with equal certainty was about to get worse due to the ending of Reconstruction and the beginning of the Jim Crow era.
Medium: The “Dancing Dan” wood carving in the front of this piece is dressed as a minstrel. While minstrel shows were a racist form of entertainment in the 1870'3 – 1920's, “Black minstrelsy provided the first large-scale opportunity for African Americans to enter American show business. The Rabbits Foot Minstrels were the first Black owned troupe with an all Black cast.
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