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To: TonyRo76
No, Revere's engraving forgets one important fact...namely that Attucks was Black. That painting on my page was by John Singleton Copley and his brother-in-law Henry Pelham. It was done just two weeks after Revere's more well-known engraving.

There's another famous engraving that was done by W. C. Nell in 1855. Nell gets it right, too.


9 posted on 03/30/2006 8:10:25 AM PST by Crispus Attucks Patriot (The first to give his life for your liberty was a Black man!)
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To: Crispus Attucks Patriot

In some fairness to Revere, engraving black features was hard and perhaps beyond his skill.

I've collected some wood cuts and unless the engraver was very skilled a black person looked like a blob (no facial features) or a had grotesque exagerated features.

That said, Revere was a great silversmith and a freemason, and he should have done/known better, or at least tried.


17 posted on 03/30/2006 8:30:11 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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