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Description: How the Black Slaves Work and Look for Gold in the Mines of the Region Called...

TitleHow the Black Slaves Work and Look for Gold in the Mines of the Region Called Veragua [Panama] (Comme les esclaves naigres travaillent et cherchent lor aux-mynes en la terre nommée Veraugue)

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator roleIllustrator

Creation datec. 1586

Object typeIllustration

MaterialsBlack chalk, pen and brown ink, and watercolor

LocationPierpont Morgan Library, New York

https://www.themorgan.org/collection/Histoire-Naturelle-des-Indes/98

Accession numberMA 3900

SubjectsSlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryGold mines and mining in artIllustration of books--16th centuryMaroonsSlavery--West IndiesBlack people--Latin America

StatusFrom "Histoire naturelle des Indes" (Natural History of the Indies), also known as Drake Manuscript, ca. 1586, fol. 100r

Related content: Chapters (2) Images (27)

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Chapter 1: Rewriting the Book of Nature

Daniela Bleichmar

Visual Voyages: Images of Latin American Nature from Columbus to Darwin

~When the French writer André Thevet in 1557 published an account of the voyage he had taken to Brazil two years earlier, his printer worried that readers would find much in the text hard to believe. Might they not reasonably doubt the veracity of...

Author

Daniela Bleichmar

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.1-43

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00268.002

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Chapter subject tags:Natural history--Latin AmericaThevet, André, 1502-1590Visual culture--Latin AmericaIndigenous peoples--South AmericaSouth America--Discovery and ExplorationColumbus, ChristopherPictorial maps--Latin America--16th centuryPrints, Netherlandish--16th centuryBotanical illustration--Latin America--16th centuryTraditional medicine--Latin America--16th centuryCódice florentinoIndigenous peoples--Latin America

7. The South American Scene

David Bindman

Description: The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the “Age of...

The Image of the Black in Western Art, Volume III: From the “Age of Discovery” to the Age of Abolition, Part 2: Europe and the World Beyond

~Black Africans came to America with the first explorers. In his Historia de las Indias (1581), Diego Durán records Hernán Cortés’s three hundred companions, “not mentioning servants and blacks.” For Durán, the conquest was...

Author

David Bindman

PublisherHarvard University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.143-182

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00141.012

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Chapter subject tags:Kings and rulers--PortraitsSlavery--Latin America--HistorySlave trade in art

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