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random-brushstrokes · 8 months

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Eastman Johnson - A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves (1862)

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thepaintedroom · 5 months

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Eastman Johnson (American,1824–1906) • Not at Home • c. 1873 • Brooklyn Museum, New York

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venustapolis · 1 year

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The Girl I Left Behind Me (Eastman Johnson, 1870-1875)

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beatricecenci · 6 months

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Eastman Johnson (American, 1824-1906)

Italian Peasant Girl

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life-imitates-art-far-more · 1 year

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Eastman Johnson (1824-1906) "Dinah, Portrait of a Negress" (c. 1867) Oil on board Located in the Gibbes Museum of Art, Charleston, South Carolina, United States In the Book of Genesis, Dinah was the seventh child and only daughter of Leah and Jacob, and one of the matriarchs of the Israelites. In 19th-century America, "Dinah" became a generic name for an enslaved African woman. At the 1850 Woman's Rights Convention in New York, a speech by Sojourner Truth was reported on in the New York Herald, which used the name "Dinah" to symbolize black womanhood as represented by Truth:

In a convention where sex and color are mingled together in the common rights of humanity, Dinah, and Burleigh, and Lucretia, and Frederick Douglas [sic], are all spiritually of one color and one sex, and all on a perfect footing of reciprocity. Most assuredly, Dinah was well posted up on the rights of woman, and with something of the ardor and the odor of her native Africa, she contended for her right to vote, to hold office, to practice medicine and the law, and to wear the breeches with the best white man that walks upon God's earth.

Lizzie McCloud, a slave on a Tennessee plantation during the American Civil War, recalled that Union soldiers called all enslaved women "Dinah." Describing her fear when the Union army arrived, she said: "We was so scared we run under the house and the Yankees called 'Come out Dinah' (didn't call none of us anything but Dinah). They said 'Dinah, we're fightin' to free you and get you out from under bondage.'" The name Dinah was subsequently used for dolls and other images of black women.