The Moya View

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  • Daguerreotype Of a Little Black Girl

    Daguerreotype Of a Little Black Girl

    She was almost as white as ivory and more valuable than ebony. A pale diamond of abolitionists dreams draped in a plaid trimmed dress with lace, curls surrounding her face like any other plantation girl. – She exists at the edge of color at the point when light could be captured as day edges into…