The wife of a successful Boston clothing merchant, Lawson wears a stylish dress and holds a book—a symbol ... of art representing Black subjects from the 17th to 19th centuries opens in November.

"Almost Unknown'' is based on Square’s interpretation of a 19th-century ... books and other objects from Winterthur’s collection to represent Wilson’s gallery and Black life in the United ...

there were a series of lines drawn by “compromising” Congresses throughout the first half of the 19th century), slaves must have resided below it and free black people above it, with every man ...