Pulled straight from the piles of fan mail that I, I mean, the label receives every day.
The three greatest men of this generation...together on one envelope for the low, low price of $1.23.
Just a beautiful stamp. Let's face it...
Okay, call me color blind, but this demonstrably Caucasian man is on a stamp titled "Black Heritage." But I did some research and Wikipedia had this to offer: Chesnutt was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Andrew Chesnutt and Ann Maria (Sampson) Chesnutt, both "free persons of color" from North Carolina. His parents offered to sell him into slavery, but the potential buyer could not come up with more than $23 to pay for him. His paternal grandfather was a white slaveholder and, based on his appearance, Chesnutt likely had other white ancestors. Now you know.
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