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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Slave Grave Marker

Early figural slave grave marker at Chicora Wood Plantation, South Carolina.
Photo by Brandon Coffey.

2 comments:

Candler Arts said...

To me it looks like a white man.

Joey said...

Yeah, I can see that too. I'm not sure what documentation the plantation has that says it's a slave marker, but it's been identified that way in a few places. Would be interesting to see if they had any other figural markers.