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A black-and-white print copy of an ambrotype of Pedro Parris. The back of the photograph includes the following text: "Parris was born in 1833(?) in Africa. He was brought to Rio de Janeiro as a slave, but he was freed and brought to Maine by federal authorities to be part of the trial of Captain Cyrno Libby."
slavery
trials
photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)
1 photograph; black and white
PC004
Personal photographic collection
PC004.01.P.0600.001
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Maine (United States)
Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro state, Sudeste region, Brazil)
photographs
black-and-white prints (photographs)
Parris, Pedro Tovookan, 1833-1860
Black People
Black
African American men
Enslaved person
Item
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