Midnight Shepherdess

by David G Wilson

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26.000 x 34.000 inches

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Midnight Shepherdess

Artist

David G Wilson

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Painting - Oil On Canvas

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The escaping slaves have just crossed the border into Canada and they are celebrating their freedom. The chains are still visible, hanging from their wrists and some kneel and prayerful thanksgiving. The church, in the background, is in complete darkness, ensuring that they will not get accommodations there, because the church was in complicity with the institution of slavery, since it never protested the enslavement of the people to whom it taught the brotherhood of man. It was a monk, Batholomeo de Las Casas, who suggested the use of Africans as slaves and himself owned slaves. He later prayed that God would forgive him for his hypocracy. As the slaves cross the barbed wire border, the image of Harriet Tubman - "The Black Moses"- appears among them, her head adorned with the flag of the Union for which she served as a spy and recruiter of blacks as soldiers in the cause of national coherence during the American Civil War. Her activity of corporal salvation of slaves sealed her place in American "herstory" as an unsung national heroine.

� David G. Wilson

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November 9th, 2007

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