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In her chapter Marketing Mulatresses in the Paintings and Prints of Agostino Brunias, (2005), historian Kay Dian Kriz explains: Brunias attempted to promote these newly-won colonies as a place where people, as well as raw materials, could be cultivated and refined Within the context of a nascent abolitionist movement, successfully promoting these islands through art had to involve demonstrating the happiness and well-being of the slaves who lived there. (196) Even though these paintings represent a colonialist fantasy, many historians continue to value them as unusual examples of people of color depicted in European painting from this time period and therefore consider them an important record (Mohammed 254)
In the video, Rae adds that she paid $300 for the "frumpy robe." "The process of altering the dress was difficult because it required me to take the dress apart first," Rae told Insider
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