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The Abolition of the Slave Trade: The Inhumanity of Dealers in Human Flesh Exemplified in Captain Kimber's Treatment of a Young Negro Girl of 15 for her Virgin Modesty

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Description: The Abolition of the Slave Trade: The Inhumanity of Dealers in Human Flesh...
TitleThe Abolition of the Slave Trade: The Inhumanity of Dealers in Human Flesh Exemplified in Captain Kimber's Treatment of a Young Negro Girl of 15 for her Virgin Modesty
Creator nameCruikshank, Isaac
Creator nationality/cultureBritish (modern)
Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer
Creation date1792
Object typePrint
MaterialsHand-colored etching
LocationHuntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California
Accession numberUnknown
SubjectsPrints, BritishCaricatures and cartoonsSlaves--Emancipation--West Indies, BritishRacism in art
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3. The Physiognomy and Pathology of “Black Humor”: Caricature and the West Indies on the Eve of Abolition
Kay Dian Kriz
Description: Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies,...
Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700–1840
Writing in 1792 to Henry Dundas, Edmund Burke seemingly goes against the currents...
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Kay Dian Kriz
PublisherPaul Mellon Centre
Copyright© 2008 by Kay Dian Kriz
Related print edition pages: pp.71-115
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00314.4
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22585&redirecttoanchor=80777
Chapter subject tags:Slavery--West IndiesSlavery--Caribbean Area--HistoryRace in art--Caribbean AreaScientific racism--Caribbean AreaSculpture, Classical--InfluenceAesthetics, ClassicalPhysiognomyPrints, British--18th centuryCaricatures and cartoons--British--18th centuryHogarth, William, 1697-1764Gillray, James, 1756-1815

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