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17th century
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rings (jewelry)
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human hair
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memento mori
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mourning ring
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neckwear
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ribbon slide
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signet ring
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Antislavery movements -- Great Britain.
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Black people in art.
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Clarkson, Thomas, 1760â1846.
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Death -- Great Britain.
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Mourning customs -- Great Britain.
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Mourning jewelry -- Great Britain.
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Skeletons.
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Slave trade -- Great Britain.
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Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.
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Great Britain
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Clarkson, Thomas, 1760â1846
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Exhibition History
Figures of Empire: Slavery and Portraiture in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Britain (Yale Center for British Art, 2014-10-02 - 2014-12-14)
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Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Susan M. Yecies, Yale BA 1971
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English
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Memento mori ring
1689
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Signet ring, with motto "Am I not a man and a brother?"
not before 1787