Sunday+Morning

Date: ca. 1877
 * [[image:https://s3.amazonaws.com/saam.media/files/styles/x_large/s3/images/1979/1979.5.8_1a.jpg?itok=0wCEJKFI width="226" height="317" link="@https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/sunday-morning-28208"]] || Title: **Sunday Morning**

Artist: **Thomas Waterman Wood** Born: Montpelier, Vermont 1823 Died: New York, New York 1903

Medium: oil on paperboard mounted on canvas Dimensions: 14 x 10 1/8 in. (35.6 x 25.6 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan

Accession: 1979.5.8 || The simple act of reading was itself a political issue after the Civil War. Emancipation meant that blacks must educate themselves in order to be productive, responsible citizens. In the slaveholding South, teaching a black person to read had been a crime; in the North, the issue was not "May they read?" but "They must read."
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