Writing desk, c. 1870, Attributed to William Howard, American (born Africa), American (born Africa about 1805) active until c. 1870, 60 3/4 x 29 7/8 x 23 11/16 in. ( x x cm), Yellow pine, tobacco box and cotton crate wood, United States, 19th century, William Howard was born in Africa and lived and worked at Kirkwood Plantation in Madison County, Mississippi, first as an enslaved man and then, after the Civil War (1861–65), as a free man. This desk was handed down through an African American family, along with the story of William Howard as its maker

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