Slavery: "For more than two centuries our foreparents labored in this country without wages"

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A color screenprint by Faith Ringgold illustrating Dr. Martin Luther King’s “Letter from Birmingham City Jail.” The print depicts a wide expanse of a green and white cotton field under a clear, slate blue sky. Three individuals are shown in the center of the field, bent over to pick cotton, long canvas sacks at their sides. In the bottom right foreground is a smaller figure dressed in bright blue hat, jacket, and skirt. Handwritten in graphite is the edition [46/75] in the lower left corner with the date and signature [Faith Ringgold 2007] at lower right. The back of the print is blank.

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