Saw this at an art gallery in Rochester, NY. Oh come on!! Very few people of any race could afford painted portraits in the early 19th century.

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Go to the rich black people of the time and find that indeed they had portraits done of themselves. Who would of thunk it? Oh they owned slaves as well. But that's because secretly they were white on the inside.