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Studio portrait of Pedro Tovookan Parris mounted on dark gray card stock. Reverse of card reads:
"Pedro Tovorkan [sic] of the island of Zanzibar, taken to Portland, Me, rescued from slavery, he lived in the family of Virgil D. Parris at Paris Hill for seventeen years. The son of an African King. "
Please note that USM Special Collections can not confirm all information written on the back of the photograph, however, more information on Pedro Tovookan Parris and Virgil D. Parris can be found by clicking on the following links to external resources:
Pedro Tovookan Parris papers @ Historic New England
Article about Pedro Tovookan Parris, 07/15/2018 Portland Press Herald
Publisher
University of Southern Maine Special Collections
City
Portland, Maine
Keywords
Pedro Tovookan Parris, Zanzibar, Enslaved, Maine and Slavery, Buckfield Maine, Virgil D. Parris
Recommended Citation
University of Southern Maine African American Collection, "Photographic Portrait of Pedro Tovookan Parris" (2021). African American Collection. 1.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/aaphotos/1
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