This is a piece done by the African American artist Kara Walker named "Camptown Ladies". The work exemplifies Walker's adeptness in using silhouettes and her racially charged art. In this piece a jockey whips and rides an African American woman who appears to be in ragged garb, maybe that of a slave. Walker's message is clearly directed to the horrors of slavery. The silhouette shows that by working the blacks like horses and by not doing any of their own work, the whites were treating the blacks like animals and figuratively riding on their backs.
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