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to create an image fitting the description of this famous
historical event which is said to have singularly prevailed
in helping to change the course of history in matters pertaining
to slavery in America.

Between the period 1800 and 1860, artists such as James
Goodwyn Clonney, an Englishman who came to America in 1810,
Byre Crowe, also an Englishman and John Lewis Krimmel, a
German by birth, all took to genre painting in America.
Krimmel painted works such as (SLIDE #19) [u]Quilting Frolic[/u]
in which the black image appears again as servant/slave
[DELETED: in the person of a young girl] and as entertainer in the
person of a Black musician who provides tunes for the
low class dancers. Crowe worked between 1850 and 1857 in
America and documented with accuracy a scene from (SLIDE
#20) [u]A Slave Market in Richmond, Virginia[/u], the work was done
around 1853.

Clonney, the Englishman, turned from miniature painting
to create a scene such as (SLIDE 20A) [u]The Militia Training[/u]
1841, in which Whites provide music for black dancers.
(SLIDE 20B) [u]In the Cornfield[/u]. These common genre scenes
provided a mixture of entertainment, patriotism and frolicking
around, all mixed into one act.

Christian Mayr's painting entitled (SLIDE #21) [u]Kitchen
Ball at White Sulphur Springs[/u] was done in 1838 and presents
most vividly a frolicking scene of the famous resort house
in Sulphur Springs (now West Virginia). The servants at