Heroes of the Colored Race 1883 Size:36x24 and the steady gaze of

and the steady gaze of an officer who had outlived the War of 1812 to become its living monument

sent north to argue Florida's case in the marble chambers of a capital that regarded the territory as both prize and problem

to be seen

and a banquet hall the proper cathedral for it

These linen postcards trade in eternal afternoons

Heroes of the Colored Race 1883 Size:36x24 and the steady gaze ofHeroes of the Colored Race, 1883 a chromolithograph of Frederick Douglass flanked by Senators Blanche Bruce and Hiram Revels, ringed by vignettes of Black Americans claiming their place in the republic less than two decades after emancipation. It is the work of remembrance and assertion, both at once. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional