Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Main Guard George Town.
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Accession number:
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05684
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Record number:
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05684-7
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JCB call number:
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D824 B915
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Image title:
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Main Guard George Town.
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Creator 1:
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Joshua Bryant
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Creator 1 role:
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del. et sculp.
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Place image published:
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[Demerara]
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Image publisher:
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[A. Stevenson]
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Image date:
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1824
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Image function:
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fold-out plate 5; following p. 44
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Technique:
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engraving
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Image dimension height:
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17.3 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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35.6 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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19.9 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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36.7 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink
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Materials support:
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paper
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Description:
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Soldiers line up for review by officers on horseback. Includes enslaved Black people, municipal building, guns or muskets, swords, dwellings, and cannons.
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Source creator:
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Bryant, Joshua
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Source Title:
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Account of an insurrection of the negro slaves in the colony of Demerara, which broke out on the 18th of August, 1823.
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Source place of publication:
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Demerara
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Source publisher:
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A. Stevenson At the Guiana Chronicle Office, Georgetown.
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Source date:
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1824
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notes:
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In August 1823, the 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 notes that the main building is the armory or guard house designed by James Hacket.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.The plates do not appear in numerical order in the book, and plate 3 is lacking.
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Guianas
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject headings:
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Armed Forces
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Subject headings:
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Slave insurrections--Guyana
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