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Most of the slaves, who were thus unconditionally freed, returned without any solicitation to their former masters, to serve them, at stated wages; as free men. The work, which they now did, was found to better done than before.
Henry Ossawa Tanner
Born: June 21, 1859
Died: May 25, 1937 (aged 77)
Bio: Henry Ossawa Tanner was an American artist and the first African-American painter to gain international acclaim. Tanner moved to Paris in 1891 to study, where he continued to live after being accepted in French artistic circles.
Known for:
- The Banjo Lesson (1893)
- The Thankful Poor (1894)
- The Two Disciples at the Tomb (1906)
- Annunciation to the shepherds