Testimony of the White Marble Bust at the Jackson African American Museum, Jackson, Mississippi
I was stone before I was anything else. White marble from a quarry in Carrara, Italy, cut from the earth by men who did not know what I would become. They shipped me across the Atlantic in the hold of a vessel that also carried cotton and sugar and, in the deeper holds, human beings. I did not know this at the time. Stone does not know things. Stone simply is. I arrived in Natchez, Mississippi,...
0 Комментарии 0 Поделились 6 Просмотры 0 предпросмотр