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Photographer: Larry Gertner
Taken: March 3, 2019
Caption: Foley Square c. 1730 marker, lower half
Additional Description: Left motif: The African Free School – 1878
Center motif: Foley Square c. 1730 area map with a “You Are Here” reference point near the center.
Right motif: African landowners and farmers under Dutch rule
Text ribbon: Do you want to see me broken?/Shoulders falling down like teardrops/weakened by my soulful cries./Does my haughtiness offend you?/Don’t you take it awful hard/cause I laugh like I got a gold mine/diggin’ in my own backyard./You may shoot me with your words./ You may cut me with your eyes./You may kill me with your hatefulness,/But still like air I rise.
Submitted: March 9, 2019, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.
Database Locator Identification Number: p466391
File Size: 0.514 Megabytes

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