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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