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Creator Delaunay, Nicolas, 1739-1792 engraver.
Contributor Eisen, Charles, 1720-1778 engraver.
Title [Frontispiece for Histoire philosophique et politique] [graphic] / Ch. Eisen del. ; N. Delaunay Sulpt.
Title [Frontispiece for Philosophical and Political History]
Publisher [Maestricht]: s.n
Publisher NETHERLANDS. Maastricht. 1777
Date 1773
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 15 x 10 cm. (6 x 4 in)
Description In the central foreground, a female slave is purchased by a European planter (left), who completes the transaction by giving a sack of coins to a slave merchant. Chained and shackled, the slave leans over and covers her face in despair. Behind her, several Europeans congregate in the tropical landscape. A vessel, presumably a slave-ship, is docked in the background.
Is part of Raynal, Guillaum-Thomas-François, 1713-1796. Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements & du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes. Maestricht: Chez Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, imprimeurs & libraires, associés, [1777].
Notes Frontispiece for Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal's Histoire philosophique et politique des établissements & du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes (A Maestricht: Chez Jean-Edme Dufour & Philippe Roux, imprimeurs & libraires, associés, M.DCC.LXXVII [1777]).
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Images from the Slave Trade.
Subject Slave trade -- West Indies.
Slave trade -- South America.
Slaves -- Capture & imprisonment.
Slave ships.
Genre Engravings -- 1770-1780.
Book illustrations -- 1770-1780.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1777 Ray 62416.D frontispiece
Accession number 62416.D