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| Caption | This colour lithograph on a carte-de-visite card depicts an enslaved man being sold at auction by a white man with a hat and beard who is calling out and gesticulating. The slave carries a hat in his right hand and lowers his eyes to the ground. Date: 1850s. Record ID: nmaahc_2008.9.53. |
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| Creator | unknown |
| Artwork medium | lithographic ink on cardboard |
| Credit | Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture |
| Terms of use | Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) |
| Search stock images by keyword | Sale colour lithograph carte-de-visite card depicts enslaved man sold auction white hat beard calling gesticulating Domestic slave trade Caricature cartoons |
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| YSH006030 | 3,963 x 6,048 pixels | 24 |
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