Sujet

Edward Bates, between 1855 and 1865. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Hon. Edward Bates, between 1855 and 1865. [Slave owner, lawyer and politician: Attorney General. 'While Bates is considered by some modern scholars as "generally unsympathetic to the cause of African American freedom," he emancipated all of his slaves, and paid for his last former slave's passage to Liberia by 1851'].

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM22A76_315

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

97,8Mo (973,3Ko) / 42,0cm x 58,3cm / 4965 x 6886 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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