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Fort Worth artist highlights issue with archives in exhibit featuring enslaved people

Lillian Young spent two years researching wanted runaway slave adverts. She used their descriptions to create portraits of them. What she found was that Black history was not properly archived in history books. Confirmation of what the enslaved people looked like doesn’t exist, but based on the descriptions, she is “rehumanizing” them, the 27-year-old Young […]

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