Birdwatch Note Rating
2023-10-02 22:45:07 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 0C0F02E87A1950AC29B63A23EF449346FF58265270881CFB19EC5CB0F27C6278
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Original Note:
The man in the painting bears no relation to Nat Turner. He is an unknown man of African descent first seen in the portrait ”Head of a Negro” (1777 or 1778) by John Singleton Copley. Turner was born in 1800, over twenty years after the portrait was painted in England. https://www.nga.gov/stories/black-sailor-copley-watson-shark.html
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