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Mark Gray
@markgray.bsky.social
Deaf, cochlear implant using, pro-EU, 18th/19thc art collecting/researching woke liberal lapsed academic/consultant/university economist. Works in a university currently. About me: tinyurl.com/bdf3yaze
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Reposted for #BlackHistoryMonth. The young black man in this French wash watercolour drawing c.1840 was living in an empire that had not yet fully abolished slavery. That came (notionally, but not everywhere immediately in reality) in 1848, 'the year of revolutions'.
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Mark Gray
@markgray.bsky.social
Deaf, cochlear implant using, pro-EU, 18th/19thc art collecting/researching woke liberal lapsed academic/consultant/university economist. Works in a university currently. About me: tinyurl.com/bdf3yaze
#arthistory #19thc #18thc #Britishart
243 followers1k following110 posts