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COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
05684
Record number:
05684-9
JCB call number:
D824 B915
Image title:
[Execution of rebels on the parade ground in Cummingsburgh]
Creator 1:
Joshua Bryant
Creator 1 role:
del. et sculp.
Place image published:
[Demerara]
Image publisher:
[A. Stevenson]
Image date:
[1824]
Image function:
fold-out plate 11; following p. 62
Technique:
engraving
Image dimension height:
11.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
18.9 cm.
Page dimension height:
20.2 cm.
Page dimension width:
12.6 cm.
Materials medium:
ink
Materials support:
paper
Description:
Large open space or parade ground with soldiers standing in formation. In the center of the formation is a gallows with men hanging from it. Includes men on horseback, view of dwellings in the settlement, and ships' masts.
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, 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 this shows the execution of some of the rebel slaves.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 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:
Slave insurrections--Guyana

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