A hand-colored lithograph displaying portraits of William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, and P. B. S. Pinchback, among other distinguished men. Published by A. Muller & Co., ca. 1883.
Featured on PDR in the essay William Wells Brown, Wildcat Banker
A cottage industry, yes, but a barbershop bank? Ross Bullen plots how a story told by William Wells Brown — novelist, historian, playwright, physician, and escaped slave — circulated, first through his own works, and then abroad, as a parable of American banking gone bad.
Also appearing in the essay…
Distinguished Colored Men
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Date
1883
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