From the plantation to the Senate – Antique Wall Art
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: From the plantation to the Senate, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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From the plantation to the Senate
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Three men who had risen from slavery share this lithograph: Benjamin Sterling Turner, Frederick Douglass, and William Wells Brown, and the title traces a path from the plantation to national office. Turner was born enslaved in Virginia and later served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Alabama, one of the first Black men to sit in Congress. Douglass and Brown both escaped slavery and became influential writers and speakers against it. Published in New York around 1883, the hand-colored print reflects public interest in portraits honoring Black leaders in the years after Reconstruction.
| Created / published | New York : E.E. Murray & Co., c1883. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1880-1890.Lithographs Hand-colored 1880-1890. |
| Subjects | Turner, Benjamin Sterling,--1824-1894. Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895. Brown, William Wells,--1814?-1884. Plantations--1880-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,170 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-172944 |
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