Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings “Virginian Luxuries, from the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Center, Williamsburg, Va. As if to mimic the tendency of most Americans, including the Founding Fathers, to say as little as possible about slavery, and either to deny or avoid discussing its brutality, the painting, Virginian Luxuries appears anonymously (undated and unsigned) on the back or unseen side of another painting.”
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