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Revd. Charles W. Gardner: Pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of the people of colour in Philadelphia, Decr. 20th 1841

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Half-length portrait of the Philadelphia community reformer and anti-slavery Presbyterian pastor, seated, facing forward. Gardner, originally an itinerant Methodist preacher, aided fugitive slaves and participated in the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society and the American Anti-Slavery Society, as well as worked with several African American intellectual, benevolent, and reform societies including the American Moral Reform Society.; From Life on Stone by A. Newsam; P.S. Duval, Lith. Philada.; Newsam, a respected Philadelphia lithographer, was a deaf mute who received early art training at Philadelphia's Institute for the Deaf and Dumb.

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