Sujet

Portrait of a ship, 1857. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Portrait of a ship, 1857. American passenger ship, the Mary Caroline Stevens. The republic of Liberia was founded by American ex-slaves on the eastern coast of Africa, and was a favoured resettlement locale of its patron organization, the American Colonization Society. However, when the Mary Caroline Stevens finally set sail for Monrovia on May 25 1863, she carried only 26 passengers. The prospect of a Liberian partnership with the American government quietly withered away, becoming a little-known "path not taken".

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM26A22_073

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

8.5Mo (527.2Ko) / 18.7cm x 11.4cm / 2208 x 1346 (300dpi)

Mots clés

transport transportation Africa library country ship ships colony location century Colonial concept controversy B&W Liberia public library controversial sailing ship sailing ships United States of America 19th century water transport black & white black and white B W New York Public Library nineteenth century NYPL relocation American America USA colonialism colonisation passenger ship TGN repatriation engraving united states Unknown resettlement Illustration Heritage Art 19th-century Schomburg Center for Research Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture