COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
09921
Record number:
09921-1
JCB call number:
E780 R274h / 1-SIZE
Image title:
Un Anglais de la Barbade, vend sa Maitresse
Creator 1:
Jean-Michel Moreau
Creator 1 dates:
1741-1814
Creator 1 role:
del.
Creator 2:
Nicolas Delaunay
Creator 2 role:
Sculp.
Place image published:
[Geneva]
Image publisher:
[Jean-Leonard Pellet]
Image date:
1780
Image function:
frontispiece; vol. 3
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
18.2 cm.
Image dimension width:
11.7 cm.
Page dimension height:
25.8 cm.
Page dimension width:
19.5 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
Man hands another man money for the purchase of a slave. The woman, chained with a collar around her neck and ankle, weeps. Also includes harbor scene, fortification, ship, slaves unloading casks, and boxes on shore.
Source creator:
Raynal, abbé (Guillaume-Thomas-François), 1713-1796
Source Title:
Histoire philosophique et politique des établissemens et du commerce des Européens dans les deux Indes ... Tome troisieme
Source place of publication:
A Geneve [Geneva]
Source publisher:
Chez Jean-Leonard Pellet, Imprimeur de la Ville & de l'Académie
Source date:
M. DCC. LXXX. [1780]
notes:
The image is probably based upon the story of Yarico, a native American woman, and Inkle, her lover and an English sailor, who allegedly duped her and sold her into slavery in Barbados. Raynal, an Enlightenment philosopher, wrote of the horrors of slavery
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired before 1871.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject Area:
Indigenous peoples
Subject headings:
Slavery--Barbados
Un Anglais de la Barbade, vend sa Maitresse
