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Prominent African-American Women and the White House: Sojourner Truth to Michelle Obama - Photo 1

Prominent African-American Women and the White House: Sojourner Truth to Michelle Obama - Photo 1

This painting of President Abraham Lincoln was created by R. D. Bayley. The painting depicts Lincoln showing abolitionist Sojourner Truth a bible gifted to him by African Americans from Baltimore, Maryland. Bayley completed the painting on October 29, 1864. The image of the painting is mounted on a cabinet card.

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Library of Congress