Jacob Lawrence, The Life of Frederick Douglass No. 1.
In Talbot County, eastern shore, state of Maryland, in a thinly populated worn-out district inhabited
by a white population of the lowest order, among slaves who in point of ignorance were fully in accord
with their surroundings-it was here that Frederick Douglass was born and spent the first years of his
childhood-February 1818. (1939)
Workbook: February, 2014
February 28, 2014 : Rail thin blonde with shaking hands...February 27, 2014 : Old men in the alcove...February 26, 2014 : The Word is burned on altars of fire.February 25, 2014 : Mark the miles with melatonin...February 24, 2014 : Stone benches on the hillside:February 23, 2014 : Red flower, yellow shirt, green jungle taller than two heads.February 22, 2014 : Bile.February 21, 2014 : Ruins in the rain, Americans in a broken green van.February 20, 2014 : Beauty in white wool, Blue Guide bleeding.February 19, 2014 : Blonde with black kitten, and rice pudding.February 18, 2014 : Dancing dolphins above the lintel.February 17, 2014 : Footprints in the storm.February 16, 2014 : Third of three sisters, raised on entitlement, taught to complain.February 15, 2014 : Cynthia in Red.February 14, 2014 : Black, black, black hair.February 13, 2014 : Ghost dancers behind red tablecloths.February 12, 2014 : Ghost photos in the park.February 11, 2014 : Man falling.February 10, 2014 : Sometimes I'll ride my bike down the big hill.February 9, 2014 : Sometimes I'll lock my bike to the rack outside.February 8, 2014 : Background noise: loud, random, steady.February 7, 2014 : Broken cup on a dead man's chest.February 6, 2014 : Shear the sheep with knives of black flint.February 5, 2014 : Souls on the road.February 4, 2014 : To suffer with the Savior, and the loneliness within.February 3, 2014 : The first is married, the second dates a doting pendejo.February 2, 2014 : The prison house of memory.February 1, 2014 : Hick town Juliet.
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