Details
Title The slave chain [graphic].
Publisher [London: s.n]
Publisher ENGLAND. London. 1851
Date [1851]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 7 x 8 cm. (2.5 x 3.25 in)
Description Engraving accompanies Part III ("Sojourn at Whydah") of Forbes's travel narratives. Whydah, now known as Ouidah, is a port-city in Benin that figured importantly in the 19th- century slave-trade. Set in front of a trading depot, the illustration shows a line of slaves who are chained together at the neck. Two European overseers crack their whips.
Is part of Forbes, Frederick Edwyn. Dahomey and the Dahomans. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851.
Notes Illustration in Frederick E. Forbes's Dahomey and the Dahomans: Being the Journey of Two Missions to the King of Dahomey, and his Residence at the Capital, in the Years 1849 and 1850 (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851), vol. 1, p. 100.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from the Slave Trade.
Subject Slave trade -- Benin -- Pictorial works -- 19th century.
Slaves -- Capture & imprisonment.
Geographic subject Ouidah (Benin)
Genre Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | U Afri Forbes 9727.D v 1 p 100
Accession number 9727.D