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2024-04-09 19:22:09 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 49B0D4B3C2E9E2820C7D3D77E5E6C7F87CC46216F825D2EB21A4E3681389AC79
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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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