Details
Creator Trichon, engraver.
Contributor Fath, Rene-Maurice, 1850-1922, artist.
Title La traite des noirs [graphic] / Trichon ; Fath.
Title The slave trade
Publisher [Paris: s.n]
Date [1883?]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 13 x 19 cm. (5 x 7.25 in)
Description Image is set below the decks of a slave-ship during the middle passage. Most of the slaves wear chains and shackles on their wrists. Some try to sleep on the floor; others simply wait. In the center of the scene, a mother holds her infant child. The father buries his face in the mother's hair, and rests his hand on the shoulder of his older daughter.
Is part of Laporte, Albert, b. 1837. Récits de vieux marins. Paris: Librairie Théodore Lefèvre et cie 2, rue des Poitevins, 1883?.
Notes Engraving in Albert Laporte's Récits du vieux marins (Paris: Librairie Théodore Lefèvre et cie 2, rue des Poitevins, 1883?), p. 238.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Subject Slave ships.
Slave trade.
Slaves -- Capture & imprisonment.
Genre Engravings -- 1880-1890.
Book illustrations -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1883 Lap 7206.Q (Lewis) p 238
Accession number 7206.Q