Buying Slaves, Havana, Cuba, 1837
Caption: Selecting Others. Included in a lengthy chapter on the slave trade, this scene illustrates a description of slave trading in Cuba by a British naval officer, Richard Grant, who visited Havana in 1837. Grant describes the slave market, the barracones, and reports on a Spanish gentleman who had purchased eight slaves, and was selecting others . . . (pp. 439-440). This illustration is sometimes reproduced in secondary sources which erroneously give the impression it is based on an eye-witness drawing; however, the illustration is the late nineteenth century artist's imaginative rendering and is a fabrication.
Image Title
Buying Slaves, Havana, Cuba, 1837
RegID
SI-OB-719
Date
1837
Title
Buying Slaves, Havana, Cuba, 1837
Source
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, ed., The Story of the Sea (London, 1895-96), vol. 2, p. 440
Language
English
Item sets
Slave Sales & Auctions: African Coast & the Americas
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--Cuba--Havana
Reproduced In
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch, ed., The Story of the Sea (London, 1895-96), vol. 2, p. 440
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
13-Nov-13
Identifier
mariners10