Toqueville's 'The Virginian Luxuries'
The Virginian Luxuries painting demonstrates on the right side of the picture a white man forcing a kiss on a black woman and on the left half of the picture a slaveholder beating a slave. The painting was anonymously made in 1800 and the title suggest that the setting is in Virginia during the time that Jefferson won the presidential election. This painting conveys the brutal treatment of slaves and how often the women slaves were forced into sexual acts with their masters, for example, President Jefferson himself fathered four children with his slave Martha.
In Toqueville’s excerpt he describes three races that are reflected as the white superior European, the Negro slave, and the lost Native American that was robbed of their culture. All
In Toqueville’s excerpt he describes three races that are reflected as the white superior European, the Negro slave, and the lost Native American that was robbed of their culture. All