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2024-04-15 15:10:09 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 018ED1B6B711916F1E65A652139D43B27B7396A1920466B14446B893459701A2
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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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