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Vesalius Dissecting a Human Body
Image by Unknown Artist

Vesalius Dissecting a Human Body

_et('6'); The frontispiece of On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543) by Andreas Vesalius (1514-64). The anatomist is shown making a dissection of a human body. (National Library of Medicine)
Aethelstan
Image by Corpus Christi College, Cambridge

Aethelstan

_et('6'); Aethelstan (also given as Athelstan) - the figure on the left - reigned as King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924–927 CE and as King of the English from 927-939 CE. He is here depicted in the frontispiece of Bede's Life of St Cuthbert as presenting...
Juvenal
Image by The Trustees of the British Museum

Juvenal

_et('6'); Statue of Junius Juvenal on a pedestal lettered with his name, holding a scroll. Frontispiece to Robert Stapylton's Mores Hominum. The Manners of Men, Described in Sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal (London: 1660 CE). Etching after Robert Streeter...
Olaudah Equiano, Abolitionist Writer, c. 1789
Image by Daniel Orme

Olaudah Equiano, Abolitionist Writer, c. 1789

_et('6'); Olaudah Equiano (l. c. 1745-1797), the abolitionist writer, by the English artist Daniel Orme (l. 1766-1837), frontispiece of Equiano's autobiography (published 1789).
The Amistad Revolt
Image by John Warner Barber

The Amistad Revolt

_et('6'); Death of Capt. Ferrer, the Captain of the Amistad, July 1839, color engraving and frontispiece from John Warner Barber (1840). A History of the Amistad Captives. New Haven, Connecticut: E.L. and J.W. Barber, Hitchcock & Stafford, Printers...
A Pirate Captain by Howard Pyle
Image by Howard Pyle

A Pirate Captain by Howard Pyle

_et('6'); Captain Keitt, a detail from the frontispiece of The Ruby of Kishmoor, written and illustrated by Howard Pyle (1853-1911). First published in 1908.
Mourt's Relation
Image by William Bradford and Edward Winslow, and George Morton

Mourt's Relation

_et('6'); Frontispiece of "Mourt's Relation," published in 1622 CE in London. It is the earliest published account of the Mayflower voyage and the foundation of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
Solomon Northup
Image by Frederick M. Coffin

Solomon Northup - Author of Twelve Years a Slave

_et('6'); Portrait of Solomon Northup in his plantation suit, by Frederick M. Coffin, frontispiece to an 1859 edition of Twelve Years a Slave, first published in 1853.
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