Metal Branding Irons with Owners' Initials

The location of these items was not given in the source, but the originals are in the Wilberforce Museum, Hull, England. For details on branding, see image H006.

Image Title

Metal Branding Irons with Owners' Initials

RegID

SI-OB-763

Date

Unknown

Title

Metal Branding Irons with Owners' Initials

Source

Isabelle Aguet, A Pictorial History of the Slave Trade (Geneva: Editions Minerva, 1971), plate 33, p. 45.

Language

English

Item sets

Slave Sales & Auctions: African Coast & the Americas

Spatial Coverage

Europe--England

Reproduced In

Isabelle Aguet, A Pictorial History of the Slave Trade (Geneva: Editions Minerva, 1971), plate 33, p. 45

Researchers

Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Gillian Cheal; Henry B. Lovejoy; Tiffany Beebe; Travis May

Identifier

H019