Kara Walker

Kara Walker is best known for her panoramic friezes of cut-paper silhouettes, usually black figures against a white wall, which address the history of American slavery and racism through violent and unsettling imagery. This piece is from Walker's Bureau of Refugees series, focusing on the horrors faced by former slaves after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation and the 1866-1877 Congressional Reconstruction program.