Hornby on The Mysterious Disappearance of a “Fine Oil Painting” Depicting the First African American Lawyer @GB2d

D. Brock Hornby is publishing The Mysterious Disappearance of a “Fine Oil Painting” Depicting the First African American Lawyer in The Green Bag. Here is the abstract.

Judge D. Brock Hornby recounts the search for a missing oil portrait of the country’s first African American lawyer, Macon Bolling Allen, who was first admitted to the bar in Portland, Maine, in 1844.

Download the article from SSRN at the link.

See also Judge Hornby’s Insight: The Nation’s First Black Lawyer Got His Start In Maine, Press Herald, July 1, 2020. 

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