Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

James W.C. Pennington NPG D40143

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by John Robert Dicksee, printed by Day & Son, published by Charles Gilpin

African American minister, writer and abolitionist. At 19 years of age, Pennington escaped slavery in western Maryland. He reached New York where he worked and gained some education in Brooklyn. He was the first black student to attend Yale University. Upon completion of his studies, he was ordained in the Congregational Church as a minister. Pennington was amongst the American delegates to the Second World Conference on Slavery in London. He helped raise funds for the abolition movement whilst on the public lecture circuit in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.