Debby
Padgett of the Jamestown – Yorktown Foundation
forwarded details about their acquisition of a previously unknown oil portrait
of Ayuba Suleiman Diallo, a freeborn, educated African who was kidnapped in
Africa and sold as a slave in Maryland during the colonial era. Before taking
its place as a centerpiece of the future American Revolution Museum at Yorktown
(opening late 2016), the rare portrait (c. 1733) goes on view at the Yorktown
Victory Center this summer from June 14 through August 3. The image is at
http://www.historyisfun.org/diallo-portrait.htm.
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