Image is set in front of the Cinco Pontas fortress in Pernambuco, Brazil. Henry Diaz, a black slave, leads a slave regiment that he assembled on behalf of the Portuguese. The slave regiment successfully captured Cinco Pontas, a former Dutch stronghold., Illustration in Lydia Childs's The Oasis (Boston: Benjamin C. Bacon: Tuttle and Weeks, printers, No. 8, School Street, 1834), p. 47., Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Anti-Slavery Movement Imagery.
Creator
Hall, John H., engraver
Date
[1834]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare Am 1834 Chi 70173.D.5 p 47, https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2735
