Details
Creator Felch-Riches, engraver.
Title African slave trade [graphic] / Felch-Riches.
Publisher Columbus, Ohio: [s.n]
Publisher OH. Columbus. 1858
Date [1858]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 12 x 19 cm. (4.5 x 7.25 in)
Description Illustration is set on the eastern coast of Africa, most likely in Sierra Leone. In the center, a slave-trader inspects a slave for purchase. To the left of the pair, another European slave-trader (presumably the seller) sits on a crate, smoking a cigar as he observes the inspection process. His book, the quill, and the ink-well suggest that he is prepared to record the day's transactions. To the right, another European trader converses with three African merchants, possibly members of the Mandigo tribe. The subject of their discussion may be the sale of goods in the Africans' trunk. To the far right, an overseer with a raised whip marches behind a row of bound slaves who are headed toward a ship.
Is part of History of slavery and the slave trade. Columbus: Published and sold exclusively by subscription J. & H. Miller, 1858.
Notes Plate in William Blake's The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern (Columbus, Ohio: Published and sold exclusively by subscription J. & H. Miller, 1858), p. 112.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Images of the Slave Trade.
Subject Slave trade -- Sierra Leone -- Pictorial works -- 19th century.
Slaves -- Capture & imprisonment -- Africa, East.
Mandingo (African people)
Genre Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1858 Blake 70419.O p 112
Accession number 70419.O