DESCRIPTION: A group of three pages containing five hand-colored copper-plate engravings of scenes related to African slaving and slavery.
- Three general-arrangement plans define the three-dimensional distribution of slaves packed in the hold of a slave ship; and vignette of a woman slave in chains working on a coffee plantation with her small children, while behind her another slave is whipped while tied horizontally to a grating.
- Two scenes illustrating that Africans were not only slaves but were often complicit in conducting slave raids against other tribes. Black men are shown carrying rifles and assisting in the restraint of naked captives.
- Scene showing armed and uniformed Caucasian men rounding up a fugitive slave.
From G. T. Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Mankind. Augsburg, 1804. Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German Buffon.
PUBLICATION DATE: 1804
GEOGRAPHIC AREA: Africa
BODY OF WATER: N/A
CONDITION: Good.
Very clean on chain-laid paper. Margins are short. Verso clean as well.
COLORING: Original striking hand-color.
ENGRAVER:
SIZE: 3
" x
6 "
ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0
PRICE: $250
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