2. Why was this image/object made, and how was it used during the 1890s?
Consider what need(s) this image/object served or fulfilled during the 1890s. (Optionally--and if applicable—you might also discuss what need(s) it serves for the people who preserved or kept it since the 1890s.)
If you can identify who (or what company) made this image/object, discuss that, too.
Consider whose needs this image/object served: who was the intended user or audience? (Optionally—and if applicable--you might also address any user/audience who was deliberatelyexcluded from the object, or for whom the object was unusable or inaccessible.)
This image was made to show society how not everyone was treated fairly. The image goes into detail about how the slaves had to survive because they were not seen the same compared to hunters who were different ethnicities. With the image expressing many emotions, especially towards myself, it wants to affect the viewers who are able to see this image. This image affects me because it shows how much more privileged I am as a person. Unfortunately, people who are white get treated with more respect and tend to be in control, I would stand in that category. As far as the slaves who are not white, they are more likely seen as threatening, undervalued, workers who have no say in what they want to do.
This image was a apart of a Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. It was part of this museum to go into their process of how their ethnicity grew into having freedom eventually. This museum is the only national museum for the African American background life. It shows how unique their was because they were the only ones who were treated as such. Due to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture being the only museum for African Americans, it shows how society does not want to put effort into spreading their lives to other states to grasp more attention.
This image served the African American culture's needs into having others hearing them out with their traumas. This image was intended for everyone who was not African American in order for them to understand their perspective of what they went through in their lives. The image depicts how other people take advantage of their day to day lives because no one sees them as threatening, or someone who does what they are supposed to do for others. The image shows how African Americans are excluded from how they are not treated the same compared to someone who are in control of them.
Footnotes: Kolodizjczyk, "Slave Hunting and Slave Redemption as a Business Enterprise: The Northern Black Sea Region in the Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries" Parsons, "Slavery: Its Origin, Influence, and Destiny" Spruill, "Slave Patrols, 'Packs of Negro Dogs' and Policing Black Communities" No 1 The National Magazine 2, "Colonial Slavery", No 4 Thomas, "Hunting Stories & Stories Told about Hunting: What Isaac McCaslin Thinks He Learns in The Big Woods" Williams, " Slavery" and "Reconstruction of the Union"