Eminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 sacramento_antique and Dewey was its calm

and Dewey was its calm

in one shot

rendered in the grave engraver's hand reserved for men whom the Republic had not yet finished asking to serve

and hung upon a parlor wall

These postcards trade in pastel conch houses

Eminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 sacramento_antique and Dewey was its calmEminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886. Issued in the long aftermath of emancipation, this lithograph honors the AME bishop and Ohio legislator among a pantheon of Black leaders a portrait drawn in the sober register of a generation insisting, against the receding promise of Reconstruction, on being seen. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,