4.7 Miguel Covarrubias, “Inspection and Sale of Slaves,” from...

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Description: Inspection and Sale of Slaves

TitleInspection and Sale of Slaves

Creator nameCovarrubias, Miguel

Creator nationality/cultureMexican

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1928

Object typePrint

MaterialsUnknown

Locationin Adventures of an African Slaver, 1928

Accession numberUnknown

SubjectsSlave trade in artAfrican influencesIllustration of books--20th century

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Chapter 4. Negroes: Old and New

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Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon

BY THE EARLY PART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, the slave ship icon had become an artifact, still capable of recreating the horror of the Middle Passage for those who encountered the schematic image...

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Cheryl Finley

PublisherPrinceton University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.109-126

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00260.005

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Chapter subject tags:Slave shipsCovarrubias, Miguel, 1904-1957Woodruff, Hale, 1900-1980Harlem RenaissanceDouglas, AaronTransatlantic slave tradeAfrican diasporaCanot, Theodore, 1804-1860. Captain Canot, or, Twenty years of an African slaver

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