Sujet

Slave Gang passing along the edge of the Lushivi Marsh...1876. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Slave Gang passing along the edge of the Lushivi Marsh, from a sketch by Lieutenant Cameron in Central Africa, 1876. 'The painful march of a slave gang, two or three score wretched women all tied together by knotted ropes, all heavily laden and driven on by the whip, is a very sad scene for the humane spectator to behold'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM23A81_204

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

46,0Mo (4,1Mo) / 42,0cm x 27,5cm / 4960 x 3244 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Africa female carrying women woman people black male man men walking arts body bodies exploration art guy continent British feet foot color African captive rope ropes captivity cruelty location century Britain exploring prisoner newspapers press barefoot print concept prisoners B&W full length full-length slavery tied up bare feet cruel engraved engraving slave slaves captives Colour 19th century black & white black and white B W white and black nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News slave trade the body ILN newspaper Unknown enslaved person enslaved people 19th-century Verney Lovett Cameron Cameron Verney Lovett