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Mulatto ex-slave in her house near Greensboro, Alabama, May ...

from New York Public Library

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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.....