Honorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861-1897 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap as if to remind the

as if to remind the viewer what the war was actually for

A scene that treats the bridge less as infrastructure than as the threshold between two republics

A portrait that carries Harpers Ferry in its eyes long before the raid

as if he knew the whole vessel of a sailor's night depended on inches

Honorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861-1897 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap as if to remind theHonorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861 1897 a portrait of the Mississippi minister who, in 1870, became the first Black man seated in the United States Senate, occupying the very chair once held by Jefferson Davis. The image carries the quiet audacity of Reconstruction's brief promise. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,