The Door Of No Return Frame:Black Frame The dates inscribed—1619 and 1865—mark

The dates inscribed—1619 and 1865—mark the devastating bookends of American slavery: from the arrival of the first enslaved Africans in Virginia to the ratification of the 13th Amendment

Legacy is an African-American work of art by Keith Mallett of a father proudly holding his son amidst a patterned quilt

"We arrived on slave ships

Thank you God for my special Angel

The woman in blue carries a patterned pot

The Door Of No Return Frame:Black Frame The dates inscribed—1619 and 1865—markThe Door Of No Return is a photographic poster by Julian Madyun of The Door Of No Return on Senegal's Goree Island accompanied by quotes from Ralph Ellison and Charles W. Chesnutt.