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From the plantation to the Senate – Historic Reproduction

From the plantation to the Senate, New York : E.E. Murray & Co., c1883. — antique lithograph
From the plantation to the Senate, New York : E.E. Murray & Co., c1883.. Antique lithograph from the African American History collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: From the plantation to the Senate, preserved in this antique lithograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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Benjamin Sterling Turner, born enslaved in North Carolina, is the man this sheet's title points toward. He later won a seat in Congress from Alabama, though in the House rather than the Senate. Beside him stand Frederick Douglass and William Wells Brown, both formerly enslaved and both prominent abolitionists and writers, who represent the earlier struggle against slavery. The lithograph was published in New York around 1883 by E.E. Murray & Co. and later hand-colored, and it reflects a period when Black political leaders during Reconstruction were still a recent and widely discussed development.

Created / publishedNew York : E.E. Murray & Co., c1883.
Medium1 print : lithograph, hand-colored.
GenrePortrait prints 1880-1890.Lithographs Hand-colored 1880-1890.
SubjectsTurner, Benjamin Sterling,--1824-1894. Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895. Brown, William Wells,--1814?-1884. Plantations--1880-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,160 × 1,455 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-219128

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