Black Admiral
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black-admiral-314-6060801
title:
Black Admiral
text:
"Black Admiral" is the colloquial name for a Revolutionary War-era U.S. painting of unknown provenance that appears to depict a black man in U.S. naval uniform. In 2006, it was revealed that this 18th-century painting was merely a white sailor overlaid in the mid-to-late 20th century with African features. The painting has often been featured in U.S. books and exhibitions on African-American history and the American Revolution, as it was thought to show a real black sailor, possibly belonging to
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Painting of a sailor
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Admiral
date created:
date modified:
2024-02-25T19:10:08Z
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Black_Admiral.jpg","width":398,"height":520}
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