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Friday, August 23, 2013

Guinea Sarah

Guinea Sarah turned up in my research after From Slave Ship to Harvard was published.  I'm trying to get an article about her published and so won't go into detail right now; stay tuned.  But I will say this.  Guinea Sarah was a companion painting by James Alexander Simpson to the one he did of Yarrow.  She was described as a 100-year-old black woman.  No one knows what happened to the painting.  I've been looking.  It may have burned in a fire or it may have been thrown away.  Hopefully, it suffered neither of those fates.  Instead, it might be tucked away in someone's house, someone who hasn't the foggiest idea of what he or she has

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