Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: The Mode of exterminating the Black Army, as practised by the French.

Accession number: 
06847
Record number: 
06847-3
JCB call number: 
D805 R158h /1-SIZE
Image title: 
The Mode of exterminating the Black Army, as practised by the French.
Creator 1: 
J. Barlow
Creator 1 role: 
sculp.
Creator 2: 
Marcus Rainsford
Creator 2 role: 
del.
Place image published: 
[London]
Image publisher: 
James Cundee
Image date: 
1805
Image function: 
plate; [leaf 6, following title page]
Technique: 
engraving
Image dimension height: 
20.9 cm.
Image dimension width: 
18 cm.
Page dimension height: 
26.6 cm.
Page dimension width: 
20.5 cm.
Materials medium: 
ink
Materials support: 
paper
Languages: 
English
Description: 
French soldier pushes a black soldier into the sea where other black men are attacked by dogs. Military aspects include ships, boats, and French flag.
Source creator: 
Rainsford, Marcus, fl. 1805
Source Title: 
An historical account of the black empire of Hayti ...
Source place of publication: 
[London]
Source publisher: 
Albion Press Printed: Published by James Cundee, Ivy-Lane, Paternoster-Row; and sold by C. Chapple, Pall Mall
Source date: 
1805
notes: 
The Haitian Revolution, a series of bloody conflicts between 1791 and 1804, led to the abolition of slavery and to Haiti's independence from France.
Time Period: 
1801-1850
Provenance/Donor: 
Acquired before 1900.
Owner and copyright: 
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
Commentary: 
geographic area: 
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area: 
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings: 
Haiti--History--Revolution, 1791-1804