Title

'Blackville', 1878.Artist: Solomon Eytinge

Caption

'Blackville', 1878. Part of a series: a post-emancipation debate on Darwinism. African Americans are here caricatured in a racist fashion as illiterate and ape-like. The artist has made the speaker resemble a gorilla, thus subverting Darwin's theory that humans are descended from apes. Illustration from Adventures of America, 1857-1900, by John A Kouwenhoven, published by Harper & Brothers, (New York, London, 1938).
The Print Collector collection

Date

1938

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C15_212

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,0Mb (4,5Mb) / 16,7in x 11,6in / 5010 x 3485 (300dpi)

Keywords

animal female women woman people black male man men discussion education meeting country discussing evolution guy location century debate literacy lady concept African American African-American B&W afro-american slavery MONOCHROME emancipation slave Darwinism racism United States of America United States 19th century black & white black and white B W illiterate nineteenth century racist American America USA The Print Collector ape-like Blackville Charles Darwin Darwin Charles Robert John A Kouwenhoven Kouwenhoven John A Solomon Eytinge Sol Eytinge Solomon Eytinge Jr Eytinge Solomon Eytinge Sol John A Kouwenhoven Charles Darwin