The portrait above was completed on July 4, 1775, by Gustaf Lundberg. It talks about a Black man, probably in his 80s, in Sweden, wearing fancy 'Indian' clothes. This man has just won a game of chess and is holding up a white knight with so much joy. The artist, Lundberg, writes that though the...
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