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Isaac Lopez Brandon
1792–1855
United States
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Biography
Isaac Lopez Brandon was a Barbadian-born Jew, one of the earliest recorded Jews of African descent in American history. Born in Barbados, he and his sister Sarah Brandon Moses went on to become part of the Sephardic upper class in New York City. Portraits of him and his sister are the earliest known paintings of Jews of African descent in North American history.
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