Slave Trade, after a painting by George Morland (English, 1763-1804)

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

Illustrates a poem about a woman and her child being torn from the arms of her helpless husband and sold on the coast.

Catalog date

1791

Recorded subjects

African American; Africa; Art; Slavery; Trans-Atlantic slave trade; Violence

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