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“Portrait of a Black Woman by Marie-Guillemine Benoist and the Politics of Black Skin": • Portrait of a Black Wo...
"Am I Not a Man and a Brother? Wedgwood Anti-Slavery Medallion”: • Wedgwood Anti-Slavery ...
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For Further Reading 📚
Mia L. Bagneris, Colouring the Caribbean: Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias (Manchester University Press, 2018)
Kay Dian Kriz, Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840 (Yale University Press, 2008)
Sarah Thomas, Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition (Yale University Press, 2019)
Image Credits 🖼
Joseph Smith Speer, A General Chart of the West Indies (London, 1796) / Library of Congress / Public Domain
Illustrations of an indigo plantation and a sugar plantation in Jean Baptiste du Tertre, Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les François, tome 2 (Paris, 1667) / John Carter Brown Library / Internet Archive / Public Domain
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Planche 1 of “OEconomie Rustique, Sucrerie,” in Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, tome 1 (Paris, 1762) / Smithsonian Libraries / Public Domain
A Family Being Served with Tea, ca. 1745 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Illustration of a sugar mill in Charles de Rochefort, Histoire naturelle et morale des Îles Antilles de l’Amérique (Rotterdam, 1681), p. 332 / Library Company of Philadelphia / Public Domain
Frontispiece to The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce (London, 1774) / John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library / Internet Archive / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, Planter and His Wife, with Servant, ca. 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, A Mother with Her Son and a Pony, ca. 1775 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, West Indian Creole Woman, with Her Black Servant, ca. 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, A West Indian Flower Girl and Two Other Free Women of Color, ca. 1769 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, Free West Indian Dominicans, ca. 1770 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, A Leeward Islands Carib Family outside a Hut, ca 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, West Indian Man of Color, Directing Two Carib Women with a Child, ca. 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, West Indian Women of Color, with a Child and Black Servant, ca. 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, Servants Washing a Deer, ca. 1775 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, Market Day, Roseau, Dominica, ca. 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape / Brooklyn Museum / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, View on the River Roseau, Dominica, 1770/80 / Art Institute of Chicago / Public Domain
James Mason, after George Robertson, A View in the Island of Jamaica, of the Spring-head of Roaring River on the Estate of William Beckford esqr., 1778 / Library of Congress / Public Domain
Jasperware Anti-Slavery Medallion by Josiah Wedgwood, around 1787 / Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public Domain - modified
Agostino Brunias, A Linen Market with a Linen-stall and Vegetable Seller in the West Indies, ca. 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Philip Audinet, after Agostino Brunias, A Negro Festival drawn from Nature in the Island of St. Vincent, in Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, volume 2 (London, 1794) / John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library / Internet Archive / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica, 1779 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
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