<img width="640" height="411" src="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SIL39088015026644_02-700x450.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SIL39088015026644_02-700x450.jpg 700w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SIL39088015026644_02-300x193.jpg 300w, http://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SIL39088015026644_02-170x109.jpg 170w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="26134" data-permalink="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/2017/08/26/freedom-a-fable-a-curious-interpretation-of-the-wit-of-a-negress-in-troubled-times/sil39088015026644_02/" data-orig-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SIL39088015026644_02.jpg" data-orig-size="6504,4178" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"22","credit":"Matt Flynn","camera":"Canon EOS 5DS","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1502715218","copyright":"This image may not be reproduced without authorization from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum","focal_length":"35","iso":"100","shutter_speed":"0.00625","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="SIL39088015026644_02" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SIL39088015026644_02-300x193.jpg" data-large-file="http://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/SIL39088015026644_02-700x450.jpg" />A mastery of paper sculpture and visual storytelling, Freedom, A Fable: A Curious Interpretation of the Wit of a Negress in Troubled Times tells the tale of a 19th century woman called N—, who is soon-to-be emancipated from slavery in the American South. She begins to “dream of a land where brown skin means nothing,” when...
