DGHM 110: Introduction to Digital Humanities

The Independent Article_1907

Short article on cream paper with a cut out title 'The Independent'. The article is in two sections pasted together, but off set. The article is as follows: "But we must not neglect to refer to some of the individual exhibits. We have mentioned the bank already. The most striking and artistic is a series of historical tableaux by Miss Meta V. Warrick, a young colored Philadelphia sculptress, representing the development of the negro in this country. The figures are small and in plaster, appropriately dressed. The first represents the landing of the negro slaves at Jamestown. They are bound and wear only their native savage dress. Then follows their work in the cotton fields ; then we have the runaway slave in hiding; then their organizing a church in a blacksmith's shop, the beginning of the African Methodist Church; then the negro's loyalty to his master in the Civil War, defending his owner's home. The scenes which follow show the pathetic beginnings of negro education in the new era of freedom, the erecting of their first homes, their service as soldiers, their work as farmers, builders, contractors and bankers. All these are artistically and effectively presented."

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c. 1907