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Caesar, an enslaved man, 1851
Daguerreotype. Portrait of an African-American male figure, three quarters-length, front view, holding a staff or a shovel (?) in his right hand, wearing a white collar, dark foulard, and checked waistcoat. A note taped to the back of the case identifies the sitter and sitter's history: "born a slave of Van R. Nicoll, son of William, in 1737 at Bethlehem, N.Y., where he died in 1852, the last slave to die in the North."
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