Wilson Chinn, a Branded Slave (Illustration)

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by Charles Paxton
published on 15 April 2025

Wilson Chinn, a Branded Slave — Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from New Orleans, Louisiana, also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves, carte de visite by Charles Paxson, 1863.

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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