In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans
Published on the occasion of the exhibition In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans.Julien Hudson, the second earliest known portraitist of African heritage to have worked in the United States, was a product of a very specific time and place: pre-Civil War New Orleans. Born January 9, 1811, Hudson was the son of a property-owning free woman of color and an English merchant. A French-speaking Catholic raised primarily by women, Hudson lived in a city where his racial ancestry and status as a free person of color left him forever straddling the line between freedom and slavery. Hudson s own story reveals the striking level of...
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