Sometime around 1800, an anonymous American artist produced an arresting painting entitled “Virginian Luxuries.” It depicts a slave owner exercising two kinds of power over his human property. On the right, a white man raises his arm to whip a...

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Sometime around 1800, an anonymous American artist produced an arresting painting entitled "Virginian Luxuries." It depicts a slave owner exercising two kinds of power over his human property. On the right, a white man raises his arm to whip a...
Sometime around 1800, an anonymous American artist produced an arresting painting entitled “Virginian Luxuries.” It depicts a slave owner exercising two kinds of power over his human property. On the right, a white man raises his arm to whip a...