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Friday, February 9, 4PM
63 Park Plaza, Boston, MA
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The Collection of Avis & Eugene Robinson
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1 Photograph of Negro League Baseball Team, The Cubans
2 Staffordshire Figure of John Brown with African American Children at His Side, c. 1860
3 Stoneware Jug, Edgefield, South Carolina, alkaline glaze, slightly ovoid form with handle
4 The Black Panther: Black Community News Service, thirteen issues
5 Elizabeth Catlett (American, 1915-2012), Negroes bello, artist proof III, lithograph, signed lower right, unframed
6 Approximately Ninety Pairs of Shackles, found in West Africa, housed in a hardwood chest with turned legs
7 The North Star, April 28, 1848, Rochester, New York, Frederick Douglass, publisher
8 Middle Passage Iron Bilboes or Leg Irons, late 17th or early 18th century
9 Cased Tintype Depicting African American Young Lady Reading, 19th century
10 Elleanor’s Second Book, 1839, B.T. Albro, printer, Providence, Rhode Island
11 Leo Moss Crying Boy Doll, early 20th century
12 Framed Daguerreotype Depicting an African American Soldier, wearing an infantry uniform, c. 1864
Please Remember: The collection celebrates the extraordinary “ordinary” men and women whose unpaid labor provided the economic foundation for a young nation, whose blood was shed in every American war, whose struggle and sacrifice have been essential to the American project. And the collection illustrates a simple fact: There is no American history without African American history. Men and women of African descent arrived on these shores well before the Mayflower, and on every day since they have played a central role in the making of America. Eugene Robinson
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