sourcedumal: dassitright: Flora Stewart, who had her portrait taken the year before her death in 1868, was an enslaved African-American woman in New Hampshire during the Revolutionary War. Newspaper accounts stated that most of the townspeople of Londonderry, N.H., turned out for her funeral, when she was thought to be the oldest American. Here she wears formal long black gloves, a cape and a regal gaze. (source) You can’t tell me this woman wasn’t a Queen. You can’t tell me this woman wasn’t royalty. Bless this woman.
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sourcedumal:

dassitright:

Flora Stewart, who had her portrait taken the year before her death in 1868, was an enslaved African-American woman in New Hampshire during the Revolutionary War.

Newspaper accounts stated that most of the townspeople of Londonderry, N.H., turned out for her funeral, when she was thought to be the oldest American.

Here she wears formal long black gloves, a cape and a regal gaze.

(source)

You can’t tell me this woman wasn’t a Queen.

You can’t tell me this woman wasn’t royalty.

Bless this woman.

(via blackartrocks)



 
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