Talk:A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves

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Did you know... that Eastman Johnson's A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves (pictured) is "virtually unique in art of the period" in depicting African-American slaves as "independent agents of their own freedom"?

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The result was: promoted by Amakuru (talk) 09:47, 11 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves by Eastman Johnson

... that Eastman Johnson's A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves (pictured) is "virtually unique in art of the period" in depicting African-American slaves as "independent agents of their own freedom"? Source: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/495

Reviewed: Nominator has less than 5 DYK credits and therefore is exempt from the review requirement.

Created by DocFreeman24 (talk). Self-nominated at 06:04, 16 January 2021 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

Image: Image is freely licensed, used in the article, and clear at 100px.
Freely licensed: Used in article: Clear at 100px:

QPQ: None required.

Overall: Earwig report[1] is clean. Joofjoof (talk) 09:54, 17 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]