The only known portraits of enslaved Mississippians:

'We don’t know if either of these people had the choice to sit for the portrait. We don’t know if they had the choice of what they were wearing when they were painted. They certainly weren’t allowed to own their own portrait.'

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/rare-portraits-of-enslaved-mississippians-displayed-at-mississippi-museum-of-art/?utm_content

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