freedmen

7 photos tagged freedmen, from 3 members of Flickr Commons.

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1865

2013

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luluinnyc | Amy Dreher said:
Look at those beautiful quilts!!!!!
Lú_ said:
This image has been featured on Indicommons.org as among the Best of the Commons.
Annette Cullinane said:
Little did this lady realise I am sure, that her newspaper insulation, furniture and quilts would so perfectly frame her in history as a statement of her 'time'. A perfect sociological photo.
Lovely Cat said:
I remember being in the "cabin" on the edge of the "colored quarters" our small Louisiana town of our then housekeeper & babysitter, Mary & her husband George Jackson. (Mary was from Georgia, coudn't read/write) say around 1950, I was four. They had one large room, two beds with quilts, newspaper on walls just as in this photo. I remember going there at Christmas, we did every year with a box of groceries and gifts, it was cold and they had a wood burning iron stove in the middle of the room with a stovepipe up through the ceiling. I'll never forget that couple and their kind regard toward us.
annemarie rickard said:
amaizing how they made all the beautiful quilts that have survived to this day.....

rik vandenhende said:
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Russell Mondy said:
I would love to take Nepsy home and wait on her hand and foot.