". . . The boy who has found a red ear kisses the girl who brings the cider." ("Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office") Notice Dows's inclusion of a black slave laborer in lower right corner. Slavery officially persisted in New York State until 1799....
". . . The boy who has found a red ear kisses the girl who brings the cider." ("Murals in the Rhinebeck Post Office") Notice Dows's inclusion of a black slave laborer in lower right corner. Slavery officially persisted in New York State until 1799....
Law passed March 8, 1773 stating that slave owners who knowingly allow their slaves to beg of others are subject to a fine of 10 pounds per offence. The law also states that slave owners who knowingly sell a slave that can no longer work are...
