Images of ‘Black life, Black joy,’ are immortalized in historic Charlottesville portraits
In the middle of the University of Virginia sits a portrait of a man with piercing eyes and a serious countenance, and a story that has long survived its main character. That man is Henry Martin. The existing historical records about Martin, who was born enslaved in 1826 at Thomas Jefferson’s…
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