The Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over a 100 years, the image of an enslaved child was erased. This is his story.
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20 responses to “‘His Name Was Bélizaire’: Rare Portrait of Enslaved Child Arrives at the Met”
There are still enslaved children in many Western families. You call them LUCKY international adoptees, but many are kidnapped, sold and brainwashed to belive a fake story that is invented by adoption agencies. Till today, international adoptees/slavechildren, are used for all kinds of services to gratify the owners.
The western world love to "use" other races as pets, narcisssism at its peak, intertwined with enjoying suffering for others.
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cry me a river
Considering that the boy in the picture is a caretaker for the family and specifically of the children of that family it could very well be that the eldest child in that picture is not that much younger than the boy himself might have been terribly hurt when he was sold away to such a degree that later on the very idea of him in the picture might have been too hurtful for her to stand and look at, and it may also not have helped matters that she had no idea what became of him in the first place he could have been that there had been a close relationship between the two of them and the family did not particularly care for it… It would be much more interesting if the descendants of that family did a DNA test and because it might be more interesting as to why the picture is covered up why his photo going to his his portrait is covered up it could very well be there's more to the story than simply hardship a financial hardship…
There is also the fact that he traveled with the head of that house wherever he went and that he is half white it could very well be that the gentleman in questions in fact his father it wasn't uncommon for his slave master to have a thing with one of his slaves and have children by them especially if they were domestic If his mother was a domestic it was not uncommon for the head of the household to have a thing with her and consider the child even though the child was a slave he would have given that child more because it's remember he's got a French name and it's in Louisiana which was French owned for quite some time it could very well be that there's more to this picture than meets the eye.
its so important to see them because they exist! they are central! it makes me sad how they are always to the side then and now
yes ive seen old paintings w african people or mixed people . its so important for me to see them. why did they dissappear?
how did they remove and erase him?
I want this print. And Elizabeth dido belle
Such a moving story!
Wow. Eyeopening once again, in the history of slavery
Fantastic, what a story.. and a beautiful painting at that..
He thinks in HINDSIGHT…IT WAS A MISTAKE. Mighty white of him. SMDH
REPARATIONS NOW
We just gonna ignore how much he looks like his half siblings or what.
Wow the level of research and expertise needed to find Bélizaire is impressive. I’m sad that we don’t know whether he ever experienced freedom but happy we know his identity and can give him back his rightful place in the painting 💕
👁️👁️⚖️✝️🩸👑🍞💧😡🌡️🌪️🌋👀👂🙏⏳, you can thank freemason/jesuits darwin inlightenment evolution eugenics crap for the ignorantance of people doing this to painting's !
I wonder how the cover up paint was removed without taking away without damaging the that made up his portrait?
While visiting the Greenbriar Resort in WV when I was around 13, I spotted a portrait of a woman with children along with two slaves. I was enthralled at seeing a portrait that included slaves.
This painting does not show Bellevair as part of the family… he is disproportionately painting off to the side away from the white children intentionally to note his slave status.
The paint out was a malicious attempt to rewrite history. I'm so proud of my black history, no matter how society tries to change and erase it will forever haunt them…
a moving story.