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Richard Toler photograph

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Ohio Federal Writers' Project

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Reverse reads: "Richard Toler 515 Popland Cincinnati. O" Richard Toler was born in Virginia. He learned blacksmithing as a slave, and he earned his living as a blacksmith for 36 years after emancipation. Toler later became an accomplished fiddler, and wrote a well known slave narrative.
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