Jean-Baptiste Belley, c. 1797. Senegal-born French politician, former slave from Saint-Domingue, in the French West Indies, elected member of the Estates General, the National Convention, and the Council of Five Hundred during the French First Republic. With bust of Guillaume Thomas Raynal. Attributed to Anne-Louis Girodet de Roucy-Trioson.

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