John Greenleaf Whittier 1899 optician_print that the nation read the

that the nation read the killing as crucifixion

The Heroes and Leaders of the Colored People 1883 assembles Frederick Douglass and his contemporaries into a chromolithograph of Black achievement printed eighteen years after Appomattox — a composite portrait insisting

from the Virginian who refused a crown to the New Yorker who signed the Compromise

and presidents arrayed in the steel-point manner of the parlor album

and any space drawn to the founding era — when the republic was still a proposition rather than a fact

John Greenleaf Whittier 1899 optician_print that the nation read theJohn Greenleaf Whittier 1899 a posthumous portrait of the Quaker abolitionist poet, issued seven years after his death, when the nation had begun to canonize the New England conscience that once bent so insistently toward emancipation. The likeness carries the hush of remembrance, ink softened into sainthood. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,