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Why has she come from over yonder? She calls up our miseries on her plantation, ploughing her fields, picking her cotton, nursing her children, our own neglected for their ease. She ain’t sorry for her ways, just sorry we done quit slaving.
1. The reader may view Homer’s painting at the Smithsonian American Art Museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. Visit the Smithsonian Web site, “CivilWar@Smithsonian,” under “Slavery and Abolition,” http://www.civilwar.si.edu/slavery_visit.html.
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Ladd, F. (2010). A Visit from the Old Mistress (Oil on Canvas by Winslow Homer). In: Brooten, B.J. (eds) Beyond Slavery. Black Religion/Womanist Thought/Social Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113893_18
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