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Commemorative print containing portraits of eminent 19th-century African American men above a central cotton plantation scene. In front of the plantation residence by a river, slaves pick and transport baskets of cotton as a well-dressed African American foreman on horseback confers with a worker on a dirt road. Flanking the central portrait of "Hon. Frederick Douglass, Champion of Freedom" on a background of tropical flowers, vines, and fruits are: "Hon. Benjmain S. Turner of Alabama"; "Rt. Rev. Richard Allen" of Philadelpha, "1st Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church"; "Hon. H.R. Revels of Mississippi"; "Hon. Joseph H. Rainy [sic] of South Carolina"; "Hon. Josiah T. Walls of Florida"; and "Wm. Wells Brown, M.D., Author of the Rising Sun [sic]". Also contains vignettes of "quaint" African American home life by a river showing African Americans playing instruments and dancing, transporting watermelon by barge, and relaxing outside their home.; Copyright by Gaylord Watson.

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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. African American Authors
  3. African American Clergy
  4. African American Legislators
  5. African Americans
  6. Allen, Richard, 1760 1831
  7. Brown, William Wells, 1814? 1884
  8. Commemorative Prints
  9. Cotton Plantations
  10. Douglass, Frederick, 1818 1895
  11. Freedmen
  12. Hand Colored
  13. Lithographs
  14. Pennsylvania
  15. Philadelphia
  16. Plantation Life
  17. Portrait Prints
  18. Rainey, Joseph H. (Joseph Hayne), 1832 1887
  19. Revels, Hiram Rhoades, 1827? 1901
  20. Social Conditions
  21. Turner, Benjamin S., 1825 1894
  22. United States
  23. Walls, Josiah T., 1842 1905

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