Frontispiece and Title page, 1859. Portrait of French author and playwright Alexandre Dumas who was descended from a French nobleman and colonial adminstrator in the colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti), and an enslaved woman of Afro-Caribbean ancestry. From 'The Anglo-African magazine'.

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