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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
05684
Record number:
05684-11
JCB call number:
D824 B915
Image title:
[Five of the culprits in chains, as they appeared on the 20th of September, 1823.]
Creator 1:
Joshua Bryant
Creator 1 role:
sculp.
Place image published:
[Demerara]
Image publisher:
[A. Stevenson]
Image date:
[1824]
Image function:
fold-out plate 12; following p. 88
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
11.8 cm.
Image dimension width:
17.4 cm.
Page dimension height:
19.1 cm.
Page dimension width:
12.7 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Four scenes of hangings: at top left and right (#2 and #1), an enslaved Black man hangs from a gallows in the countryside; at bottom left (#3), an enslaved Black man hangs from a gallows near some buildings and two heads on poles; at bottom right (#4), two Black men hang from a gallows near some buildings.
Source creator:
Bryant, Joshua
Source Title:
Account of an insurrection of the negro slaves in the colony of Demerara, which broke out on the 18th of August, 1823.
Source place of publication:
Demerara
Source publisher:
A. Stevenson At the Guiana Chronicle Office, Georgetown.
Source date:
1824
notes:
In August 1823, enslaved Black people of Demerara met at Mahaica to plan a strike. The slave, Quamina, tried to keep the uprising peaceful. Advice was sought from the local Anglican priest, and considerable discussion took place among slaves, owners, priest, and the government, but the planters and governor felt threatened, and the rebellion was quickly put down by soldiers. Description of Plates identifies the victims as follows: (upper left) Quamina, hanged after his death at plantation Success; (upper right) Lindor, hanged at plantation La Bonne Intention; (lower left) Paul, hanged at plantation Friendship and two heads at plantation New Orange Nassau; (lower right) Telemachus and Jemmy, hanged at plantation Bachelor's Adventure. Bryant drew, engraved, and printed the images for this book. He also had to create the copper plates on which the designs were incised. He claims to have been the first to do this in the colony of Demerara. Image title from Description of Plates. Image placed horizontally on page. The plates do not appear in numerical order in the book, and plate 3 is lacking.
Time Period:
1801-1850
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Guianas
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Hanging--Guyana
Subject headings:
Gallows
Subject headings:
Slavery--Guyana
Subject headings:
Slave insurrections--Guyana

[Five of the culprits in chains, as they appeared on the 20th of September, 1823.]

     
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[Five of the culprits in chains, as they appeared on the 20th of September, 1823.]