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Slavery Paintings Made by George Beattie Coming Down from Atlanta Office |
| December 30th, 2010 01:35:11 am |
ATLANTA (AP).- Murals of slaves harvesting sugar cane on a Georgia plantation and picking and ginning cotton are coming off the walls of a state building on the order of a new agriculture commissioner. The murals are part of a collection of eight works painted by George Beattie in 1956 depicting an idealized version of Georgia farming, from the corn grown by prehistoric American Indians to a 20th-century veterinary lab. In the Deep South, the history in between includes the forced use of slave labor. "I don't like those pictures," said Republican Gary Black, the newly elected agriculture commissioner. "There are a lot of other people who don't like them." Slavery was indisputably part of 19th-century farming in |
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