Artist Kara Walker puts a new depiction of African Americans right on top of illustrations from Civil War-era magazine Harper's weekly.

The silhouettes are cut from black paper.

Some are profiles.

Others are women and men toiling in the landscape.

Walker is best known for her life-size silhouettes that examine racial tensions in America.

It’s her first treatment of work from the Civil War era.

"She has annotated it with her images to kind of add the African American back into the story that they were intrinsically tied to," said Patty Sriram, Gallery Director at Gallery 221 at Hillsborough Community College in Tampa.

It's part of her work “Kara Walker: Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated),” on display through March 3.

The installation is leaving its mark on HCC honors students Brittany Judson and Raquel Baudrit.

Brittany Judson's dad is from the Caribbean, and her mom from the Philippines.

She sees her father's challenges in these striking images.

"He felt some of the effects because he is of darker skin,” Judson explained about her dad’s fight against racism.

"My dad is one of the hardest workers I have ever met, but he has also struggled and he is still struggling," Judson said.

Raquel Baudrit is from Costa Rica.

She sees the minority struggle today through this effort to annotate the past.

"It's very eye-opening and it draws attention to a lot of big issues right now like Black Lives Matter -- all Lives Matter, said Baudrit, “And they've always mattered throughout history. So I think going to this exhibition- it definitely helps that conversation start and you know- continue."

The work is on loan from the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College in Winter Park.