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Noir au bois Mayombe [graphic] / Dessiné d'après nature, par G.P. ; Michel sculp.
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Creator
Michel engraver.
Contributor
G.P., artist.
Title
Noir au bois Mayombe [graphic] / Dessiné d'après nature, par G.P. ; Michel sculp.
Title
Blacks from the Mayombe forest
Publisher
[Paris: s.n]
Publisher
FRANCE. Paris. 1801
Date
[1801]
Physical Description
1 print: wood engraving; image 22 x 37 cm. (8.75 x 14.75 in)
Description
The image is set in the interior of Angola; it shows African slave-traders and the slaves they have captured from the Mayombe forest. Armed with rifles and swords, the traders lead the slaves to the coast, where they will be sold. The slave in the foreground wears a forked branch around his neck. It is secured in the back by an iron pin, which, as the text explains, threatens to choke him. A trader holds the other end of the branch, thus directing the slave along the narrow path. To the right, another slave is bound with ropes and escorted by two traders. Behind them, a trader leads a female slave by the hand.
Is part of
Grandpré, Louis de, 1761-1846. Voyage à la côte occidentale d'Afrique. Paris: Dentu, imprimeur-libraire, Palais du Tribunat, Galeries de Bois, no. 240, an IX., 1801.
Notes
Fold-out plate in L. de Grandpré's Voyage à côte occidentale d'Afrique: fait dans les années 1786 et 1787 . . . (Paris: Dentu, imprimeur-libraire, Palais du Tribunat, Galeries de Bois, no. 240, an IX., 1801), vol. 2, p. 48.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Genre
Engravings -- 1800-1810.
Book illustrations -- 1800-1810.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | U Afri Grand 10198.D v 2 p 48
Accession number
10198.D
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Fels African Americana Image Project
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