A new collection of family portraits from the early 1900s offers a glimpse into the lives of African American families in the era immediately after Civil War reconstruction.
Virginia-born coachman Thomas A. Dillon and his wife, Margaret, native of Newton, MA, pose in the parlor of their home at 4 Dewey Street with children Thomas, Margaret, and Mary in 1904.
(left) Lillian, Luvenia, and Cora Ward were the daughters of William H. and Arries Ann Ward. (right) Richard and Mary Elizabeth Ward Wilson in 1902.
Portrait of Raymond Schuyler and his children, Ethel, Stephen, Beatrice and Dorothea, in about 1904.
James J. Johnson, of Narragansett, RI and Jennie Bradley Johnson, a migrant from Charleston, SC, pose with their daughters Jennie and May in 1900.
This man is a hunter. He kills wildlife and eats some and sells their meat for a living.
The hypocrisy of society is that a lot of people who’ve been silent about the daily unprovoked assassination of black people by the US police, actually do find this man’s job offensive and will be willing to engage in any conversation or action that will make him stop poaching wildlife.
Don’t you think there’s something wrong with a world that values the lives of gorillas and lions and butterflies more than the lives of black people?
Photo and Words by Nana Kofi Acquah (www.nkaphoto.com) @africashowboy (Copyright: 2016). #Liberia #hunter #blacklivesmatter