Violin played by the enslaved man Jesse Burke. This violin was originally owned by a slaveholder named Elijah Burke, who owned the Mount Pleasant Plantation in Phillips County, Arkansas. Before the slaveholder died in 1860, he gave the violin to an enslaved man on his plantation, Mr. Jesse Burke (b. 1834 – d. 1909).

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Photo credit: © SBS Eclectic Images / Alamy / Afripics
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