Summary: Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama, and continued to farm the land until the late 1920s when he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor became homeless and started to draw and paint, devising his visual language to depict his memories of slavery and scenes of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of New Mexico Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 746.74 KOPBishop, Robert Charles.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking Studio Books in association with Museum of American Folk Art 1995