That's false. <span>The slave trade existed long before that. </span>
Church restrictions on bodies: it was sinful for a person to be without clothing in front of an artist. To create realistic paintings, corpses were used.
Corpses were used as a model for the human body. Renaissance painters strove for realism and the corpse provided a realistic human image. An alive person would not be able to pose, in particular without clothing, for a painter. This would have been sinful.
John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington and Adams, Jefferson
It would be "Nathaniel Hawthorne" who would not generally be considered a part of the <span>19th-century transcendentalist movement, since although he had ties to the community, the other people on this list were in fact leaders of the community. </span>