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2024-04-15 14:48:24 UTC - SOMEWHAT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: C786DA7EDE44958343BA5D5E8F965C189E9E51DD51801E88C10437C9BDA870B1
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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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