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Jacob Lawrence

To Preserve their Freedom: Napolean's attempt to restore slavery in Haiti was uncucessful. Desalines, Chief of the Blacks, defeated LeClerca. Black men, woman, and children took up arms to preserve their freedom, from the series The Life of Toussaint L'Ouverture

1988
Classification
Prints
Medium
Silkscreen on rag paper
Dimensions
Framed: 29 3/4 x 39 3/4 x 1 5/8 in. (75.6 x 101 x 4.1 cm), Matted: 26 x 36 in. (66 x 91.4 cm), Sheet: 22 x 32 1/8 in. (55.9 x 81.6 cm), Image: 18 1/2 x 28 5/8 in. (47 x 72.7 cm)
Object number
2018.63.4
Copyright
© 2026 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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