COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
67-113
Record number:
67-113-1
JCB call number:
E789 L464m
Image title:
Celui qui Boit mon Sang, mes Sueurs et mes Larmes ... me refuse un morceau de Pain et m'assomme.
Place image published:
[London & Paris]
Image publisher:
[Prault]
Image date:
[1789]
Image function:
frontispiece
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
17.2 cm. (platemark)
Image dimension width:
11 cm. (platemark)
Page dimension height:
19.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
12 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
French
Description:
A European man and woman dine on chocolate and bread. The man rises from the table using a stick to beat back a black man (slave) from the table. Includes bales of goods, barrels, and palm trees.
Source creator:
Lecointe-Marsillac
Source Title:
Le More-lack, ou Essai sur les moyens les plus doux & les plus équitables d'abolir la traite & l'esclavage des nègres d'Afrique, ...
Source place of publication:
A Londres [London], et se trouve a Paris
Source publisher:
Chez Prault, imprimeur du roi, quai des Augustins.
Source date:
1789
notes:
Authorship from Echeverria & Wilkie, French image, 789/68. Purportedly written by a freed slave named More-lack.Text discusses acquisition of slaves in Africa and their transport to and treatment in the Americas.
Time Period:
1751-1800
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1967.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Slavery
Celui qui Boit mon Sang, mes Sueurs et mes Larmes ... me refuse un morceau de Pain et m'as...
