The Story of Edward Hill and the African Groom at Shirley Plantation
I have looked at hundreds of colonial portraits, and the most intriguing figure that I have seen is unnamed, barely visible, only about five inches tall, and whose face is largely obscured. This figure is an African groom—who I can now argue is the first known representation of a person of African d...
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University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing
2020-11-01
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https://editions.lib.umn.edu/panorama/article/edward-hill-and-the-african-groom/
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