Details
Creator Andrew & Filmer engraver.
Contributor Biard, Auguste-Francois, 1799-1882, artist.
Title Slave market scene on the Kambia River, coast of Africa [graphic] / Andrew & Filmer sc.
Publisher [New York: s.n]
Publisher NY. New York. c1860
Date [1840, c1860]
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving; 40 x 56 cm. (16 x 22.25 in)
Description In the center of this busy, crowded scene, a European slave-trader examines the teeth of a male slave who is lying flat on the ground. Another European trader straddles the slave while negotiating with three African merchants. To the right, a well-dressed European merchant observes the inspection process. The open book near his elbow is most likely a ledger in which he will record his purchases. To the left of center, a European slave-trader brands a female slave while others wait their turn. With his back turned toward the viewer, an overseer in the left foreground watches the branding of the slaves. A large hatchet hangs from his belt, and he holds a metal instrument commonly used to restrain and punish slaves. In the left background, an African overseer whips a bound slave. A slave-ship at sea appears in the distant background.
Is part of Drake, Richard. Revelations of a slave smuggler. New York: Robert M. De Witt, publisher, [c1860].
Notes Fold-out frontispiece for Richard Drake's Revelations of a Slave Smuggler: Being the Autobiography of Capt. Rich'd Drake, an African Trader for Fifty-Years from 1807 to 1857; during which Period He Was Concerned in the Transportation of Half a Million Blacks from African Coast to America (New York: Robert M. De Witt, publisher, [c1860]).
Wood engraving after the 1840 painting entitled "The Slave Trade" by Auguste-Francois Biard.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Subject Slave trade -- Africa, West.
Slaves -- Capture & imprisonment -- Africa, West.
Branding (Punishment)
Genre Wood engravings -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1860 Dra 72735.O frontispiece
Accession number 72735.O