Evolution of the African Race 19 Frame Style:Ebony Frame A piece worth hanging

A piece worth hanging

drawn by hands that sensed the Union fraying and looked to Valley Forge for proof that suffering could still be ennobled into nationhood

rendered in the sober portraiture reserved for officers whose victories were measured in muddy Arkansas miles rather than Eastern headlines

A Gilded Age trophy hauled across the Atlantic by Vanderbilt money

and whether the courts would dare answer

Evolution of the African Race 19 Frame Style:Ebony Frame A piece worth hangingEvolution of the African Race 19 belongs to a didactic print tradition that sought to chart Black American life in panels and plates a chromolithograph plate that bears the weight of how the nineteenth century insisted on narrating a people whose story was already being told by themselves. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical