African Slave Trafic

This engraving shows European and African slave traders at an unknown location, likely in Africa. According to the accompanying text, "European on left examining an African; on right, African traders looking at European trade goods, and European in background with whip herding purchased Africans toward slave ship. . . Illustrates the process of slaving after Africans were captured; after examining the captives, they were chained and stowed" (see pp. 113, 127). The image was apparently not based on an eye-witness, but was fabricated by the artist. This illustration was probably derived from an earlier, unidentified, source; or it is a composite of other images. see, for example, image canot-2 on this website.

Image Title

African Slave Trafic

RegID

SI-OB-980

Date

1900s

Title

African Slave Trafic

Source

William O. Blake, The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade (Columbus, Ohio, 1857), p. 112; also found in later editions

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. 112

Researchers

Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May

Last Updated

10-Feb-17

Identifier

Blake2