This lecture by Dr. Jon Edwin Mason, Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia and Co-Director of the Holsinger Portrait Project, looks at the portraits that hundreds of African Americans from Central Virginia commissioned from Charlottesville's Holsinger Studio in the early twentieth century. This lecture is part of the Isaac Julien Speaker Series, which features distinguished speakers who make connections to the exhibition Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass.