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Guest Editors' JCWE December 2023 Note: Researching Nineteenth-Century African American History - The Journal of the Civil War Era
In 1985, The Historic New Orleans Collection purchased one of the few known nineteenth-century paintings of a free woman of color in the United States. François Fleischbein’s Portrait of a Free Woman of Color, completed in 1837, is mounted in an elaborate and expensive goldleaf frame. The woman wears a delicately painted lace collar and … Read More Read More
