I Sang The Blues Black: 9 Holes

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This framed mixed media portrait by Adebunmi Gbadebo is a composition of screen-printed white hand-made paper, cotton, clumps and strands of black hair, and varying degrees of indigo dye mixed with reproductions of documents related to the True Blue Plantation. The edges of the portrait are rough. In the top left quadrant is an intense patch of indigo dye. In this same area are two pieces of paper with black text. The first piece of paper refers to a slavery rating system and is divided into two columns and the text "prime hand," "half hand," "Supersnnuated," "Overseer's nurse," and "prime hand" repeated again several times. Diagonally below and to the right is the second piece of paper with names: [[illegible] / Rachel / Dolly / Phillis / Joseph / Selina / Mary / [illegible] / Be- / Ga- ].

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