Branding Slaves
This print shows an enslaved woman being branded by a white man, while other African women were presumably waiting to be branded at an unknown location, likely in Africa. Blake used this illustration to depict the lengths to which slave traders would go in order to keep track of their merchandise. The same image is also found in later editions of Blake. In any case, this image is apparently not based on an eye-witness, but was fabricated by the artist. The illustration appears to be an embellishment of an earlier one in another source (see image H006 on this website; also, for details on branding).
Image Title
Branding Slaves
RegID
SI-OB-979
Date
1900s
Title
Branding Slaves
Source
William O. Blake, The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade (Columbus, Ohio, 1857), p. 97.
Language
English
Item sets
Slave Sales & Auctions: African Coast & the Americas
Spatial Coverage
Africa
Reproduced In
William O. Blake, The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade (Columbus, Ohio, 1857), p. 97.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
2-Jun-16
Identifier
Blake1