Details
Creator Inselin, C. engraver.
Title [Punishments for deserters] [graphic].
Publisher [Paris: s.n]
Publisher FRANCE. Paris. 1698
Date [1698]
Physical Description 1 print: woodcut; image (combined) 14 x 8 cm. (5.25 x 3 in)
Description Two scenes show methods for punishing runaway slaves. As the caption suggests, the top image shows the way in which Portuguese colonizers punished captured fugitives: here, a slave-owner whips a slave who hangs by his neck from a tree limb. A form of punishment invented in Martinique is shown at the bottom left: a standing slave is forced to wear a collar around his neck and a shackle around his right ankle. The two are connected by a short chain that forces the slave to bend his right leg backward and support all of his weight on his left leg. Lastly, the bottom right illustrates one slave's punishment for having escaped: his leg was amputated above the knee.
Is part of Froger, François, b. 1676. Relation d'un voyage fait en 1695, 1696 & 1697. Paris: Imprimée par les soins & aux frais du sieur de Fer, geographe de Monseigneur la dauphin. Dans l'isle du Palais, sur le quay de l'Horloge, à la Sphere royale, [1698].
Notes Plate in François Froger's Relation d'un voyage fait en 1695, 1696 & 1697: aux côtes d'Afrique, détroit de Magellan, Brezil, Cayenne & isles Antilles, par une escadre des vaisseaux du roy, commandée par M. de Gennes (A Paris: Imprimée par les soins & aux frais du sieur de Fer, geographe de Monseigneur le dauphin. Dans l'isle du Palais, sur le quay de l'Horloge, à la Sphere royale: Et chez G. Saugrain dans la grande salle du Palais, à la Croix d'or., M.DC.XCVIII. [1698]), p. 150.
Caption accompanying the top scene reads: "Comme les Portugais fouettent leurs Esclaves lors quils ont deserté." The caption on the bottom left reads: "Invention d'un François de la Martinique;" the one on the right reads: "Esclave qui a la Jambe coupee pour avoir deserte."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Punishment Scenes.
Subject Slavery -- West Indies, French -- Pictorial works -- 17th century.
Fugitive slaves -- Punishment & torture.
Genre Woodcuts -- 1690-1700.
Book illustrations -- 1690-1700.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1698 Froge 578.D p 150
Accession number 578.D