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Sarah Brandon Moses

1798–1828

United States

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Sarah Brandon Rodrigues Moses was a Barbadian-born Jew, one of the earliest recorded Jewish women of African descent in American history. Born in Barbados, she and her brother Isaac Lopez Brandon went on to become part of the Sephardic upper class in New York City. Portraits of her and her brother Isaac are the earliest known paintings of Jews of African descent in North American history.

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