| Contributor |
Mackenzie, engraver. |
|
Hurst, Thomas, publisher. |
| Title |
Alice, d. 1802. |
| Alternate title |
Alice / engraved from an original sent from America, by Mackenzie. |
| Publisher |
[London] : Pub. Jan. 1. 1803, by T. Hurst, Paternoster-Row. |
| Date |
[1804?] |
| Physical description |
1 print : engraving ; 9.8 x 6.2 cm. |
| Description |
Bust-length portrait of Alice, wearing a bonnet. |
| Notes |
In Thomas, Isaiah. Eccentric biography; or, Memoirs of remarkable female characters, ancient and modern (Worcester, 1804),
plate preceding p. vii.
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Alice, known variously as Black Alice and Alice of Dunk’s Ferry, was a native of Philadelphia and a slave, born to parents
who had come from Barbados. She is said to have been 116 at the time of her death in 1802. In extreme old age Alice received
many visitors who enjoyed hearing stories about early Philadelphia and its famous first settlers, including William Penn and
Thomas Logan. Alice was also a lifelong worshiper at Christ Church in Philadelphia.
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“Being a sensible intelligent woman, and having a good memory, which she retained to the last, she would often make judicious
remarks on the population and improvements of the city and country; hence her conversation became peculiarly interesting,
especially to the immediate descendents of the first settlers, of whose ancestors she often related acceptable anecdotes.”--P.
9.
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| Genre |
Portrait prints -- 1800-1809. |
|
Engravings -- 1800-1809. |
| Subject |
Alice, d. 1802 -- Portraits. |
|
Women. |
|
African American women. |
|
Afro-Americana. |
|
Older women. |
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Barbadians. |
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Women slaves. |
| Related resource |
http://www.librarycompany.org/extraordinarywoman/age.htm |
