Artist Titus Kaphar and his oil-on-canvas masterpiece titled "Behind the Myth of Benevolence" feat. Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson (Photo taken in 2014)
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Edit: “This painting is about Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings, and yet it is not,” Kaphar said. “The reason I say, ‘And yet it is not,’ is because we know from the actual history that Sally Hemings was very fair. Very, very fair. The woman who sits here is not just simply a representation of Sally Hemings, she’s more of a symbol of many of the black women whose stories have been shrouded by the narratives of our deified founding fathers.”
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