Review of Fight On - A Visual Interpretation of African American Spirituals
If you're asking whether the enslaved fought back during slavery, you may have inadvertently drank the proverbial Western kool-aid and thought we merely served the master with a shuffle, a smile and a song. Well, the truth is, while we were doing back breaking work in the fields and in the house, we often, "Woke up this morning with my mind stayed on Freedom." That's the title of the Negro Spiritual that inspired the stunning cover image of this great collection of paintings that were inspired by...