Portraits of Dennis Doram, Jr., and Diademia Doram, c. 1839 | A State Divided

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KET A State Divided Civil War Kentucky artifact Kentucky history freedmen free blacks Dennis Doran Diademia Doran Patrick Henry Davenport Patrick Davenport Antebellum South Antebellum period
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Portraits of Dennis Doram, Jr., and Diademia Doram, c. 1839 | A State Divided

These are oil-on-canvas paintings of Dennis and Diademia Doram. Both of them were born enslaved. But, they became a wealthy and well-known couple. Dennis owned a rope factory and a hemp business. He helped found the Caldwell School for Women in Danville. The portraits were painted by Patrick Henry Davenport. These portraits may be the only paintings of African Americans that he painted.
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