Role 2

This imagine is called Slaves by Thomas hart Benton. the concept of this art work is to show the second fundamental role which creates a visual record. this imagine shows a white man preparing to whip a African American slave. the slaves wife and children have no clothes on probably to symbolize that slave wife's and daughters were raped back in the day by the owners. If you look closely it almost looks like they are preparing to leave a boat to come to America.the reason I say America is because in the back ground you see tall buildings and houses that look like plantation in the south.also these houses are  painted white and  majority of plantation back in the 1800 were painted white to show white dominance. this image really captures the essence of brutality towards slaves during the 18 and 19 hundreds.