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Slave barracoons -- burial-ground [graphic] / J.B.Z.
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https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2819
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Contributor
Zwecker, Johann Baptist, 1814-1876 ill.
Title
Slave barracoons -- burial-ground [graphic] / J.B.Z.
Publisher
[New York: s.n]
Publisher
NY. New York 1868
Date
[1868]
Physical Description
1 print: engraving; image 8 x 13 cm. (3.25 x 5.25 in)
Description
Illustration depicts an episode that Du Chaillu witnessed during his stay in Cape Lopez (in the modern country of Gabon). As he wrote, "During my stay in the village, as I was one day out shooting birds in a grove not far from my house, I saw a procession of slaves coming from one of the barracoons toward the farther end of my grove. As the came nearer, I saw that two gangs of six slaves each, all chained about the neck, were carrying a burden between them, which I knew presently to be the corpse of another slave. They bore it to the edge of the grove, about three hundred yards from my house, and, throwing it down there on the bare ground, they returned to their prison, accompanied by the overseer, who, with his whip, had marched behind them." (p. 115)
Is part of
Du Chaillu, Paul B. (Paul Belloni), 1835-1903. Stories of the gorilla country. New York: Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, 1868.
Notes
Plate in Paul Du Chaillu's Stories of the Gorilla Country: Narrated for Young People (New York: Harper & Brothers, publishers, Franklin Square, 1868), p. 108.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Subject
Slavery -- Gabon -- Pictorial works -- 19th century.
Funeral rites & ceremonies -- Gabon.
Genre
Wood engravings -- 1860-1870.
Book illustrations -- 1860-1870.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1868 Du Chail 17468.D p 108
Accession number
17468.D
In Collections
Fels African Americana Image Project
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