Details
Creator Lalemont, engraver.
Contributor Buttura, artist.
Title Negres de traite en voyage [graphic] / Buttura del. ; Lalemont sculp.
Title Enslaved Africans at a point on their voyage
Publisher [Paris: s.n]
Publisher FRANCE. Paris. 1835
Date [1835]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 9 x 12 cm. (3.5 x 4.5 in)
Description Engraving shows several Africans being led from Senegal's interior to the coast, where they will be sold into slavery. Three Africans in the foreground wear forked branches around their necks. Such branches were commonly used in the African slave-trade, and appear frequently in depictions thereof. The branches were secured in back by an iron rod, which threatened to choke the wearer if he or she struggled or tried to escape.
Is part of Hugo, Abel, 1798-1855. France pittoresque ou Description pittoresque, topographique et statistique des départements et colonies de la France. Paris: Chez Delloye, éditeur de la France militaire, place de la Bourse, rue des Filles-Saint-Thomas, 13, 1835.
Notes Illustration in Abel Hugo's France pittoresque ou Description pittoresque, topographique et statistique des départements et colonies de la France (A Paris: Chez Delloye, éditeur de la France militaire, place de la Bourse, rue des Filles-Saint-Thomas, 13, 1835), vol. 3, p. 270.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Subject Slave trade -- Senegal.
Slaves -- Capture & imprisonment -- Senegal.
Punishment devices.
Genre Engravings -- 1830-1840.
Book illustrations -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1835 Hugo 10039.Q v 3 p 270
Accession number 10039.Q