Details
Title Branding a female slave [graphic].
Publisher [Washington, D.C.: s.n]
Publisher DC. Washington. 1914
Date [1914]
Physical Description 1 print: photomechanical print; image 16 x 11 cm. (6.25 x 4.25 in)
Description Set on the coast of Haiti, the image shows a slave-trader branding a female slave on the shoulder. The unclothed slave kneels on the sand with her hands chained behind her back. Other slaves await their turn, covering their eyes or looking away. In the lower right-hand corner, a second slave-trader sits on a barrel with a rifle resting on his knee. A slave-ship is visible in the background.
Is part of Cromwell, John W. (John Wesley), b. 1846. Negro in American history. Washington, D.C.: The American Negro Academy, 1914.
Notes Plate in John W. Cromwell's The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the American of African Descent (Washington, D.C.: The American Negro Academy, 1914), p. 2.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Subject Slave trade -- Haiti.
Branding (Punishment)
Slaves -- Punishment & torture -- Haiti.
Slave ships -- Haiti.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- 1910-1920.
Book illustrations -- 1910-1920.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1914 Cromw 78796.O p 2
Accession number 78796.O