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Julien Hudson New Orleans Antebellum free man of color artist

Self Portrait Julien Hudson (1811-1844) circa 1839 Oil on canvas His Self Portrait shows him as a fashionable young man in a black frock coat and patterned red waistcoat. A landscape serves as the background. Historian Alice Dunbar-Nelson wrote: "There is no state in the Union like Louisiana, hardly any spot of like size on the globe, where the man of color has lived so intensely, made so much progress, been of such historical importance and yet about whom so comparatively little is known…
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