Knous Entry 8

I chose this painting of the slave market in early times because I feel it shows a great deal of the agony and pain that went along with the slave market and trade. I found this photo online after a short google search. This painting shows how the African Americans were in a gloomy kind of mood beacuase of the harsh living conditions and lack of any type of luxury. You see the folks just simply standing around, to me this shows that the people in this painting are just waiting on something, but no one really knows what so they are just standing around with the nothing that they have in the New World. You can see a couple people bent over in either pain, or hunger or emotional pain, which also shows the pure brutality of the slave trade, possibly not even from being beat but the trade itself being so brutal it breaks the spirit of some people. One also can see some smoke arising from the behind a few people to me this comes off as that is smoke from a fire to keep warm, cook food, and possibly dry wet clothing. The picture in itself with the dark colors shows the gloomy times in which the slave trade took place. This relates to the material because the material shows how brutal slavery was in words, this picture shows a portion of how brutal slavery was visually.