artifact of empire 1830s
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ARTIFACT OF EMPIRE1830s
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Title - “To The Friends of Negro Emancipation”
Creator - Alexander Rippingille 1796 – 1858
Type - Oil Painting
Date of Creation - ca. 1834
Content - Blacks celebrating the Emancipation of slaves in British
dominions, August 1834.
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• This painting shows the celebration of slaves in the West Indies, a term used to collectively name most of the islands
in the Caribbean.
• Alexander Rippingille was a white, British citizen working as a painter alongside his brother Edward in Bristol.
• To The Friends of Negro Emancipation? Not to the Negros themselves?
• It sounds like a congratulations to those who fought for the slaves, as opposed to a congratulations on being free for the
first time in generations.
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“Emancipation Notice” - on Tree Trunk
Act for the Abolition of Slavery 1833
This painting represents the triumph
over slavery in all colonies of the British Empire, beginning in
1834.
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History:
• 1807: Act prohibiting the Slave Trade
• Slaves were still held, but not sold, within the British Empire.
• In the 1820s, the abolitionist movement revived the campaign against the institution of slavery.
• In 1823 the first Anti-Slavery Society was founded in Britain.
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• On 28 August 1833, the Slavery Abolition Act received Royal Assent.
• This paved the way for the abolition of slavery.
• On 1 August 1834, all slaves in the British Empire were emancipated, but they were indentured to their former owners in an apprenticeship system that
meant gradual abolition.
• The apprenticeship system was disbanded in 1838 due to peaceful protests in Trinidad.
• Already, the former slave population held a certain amount of sway in political matters across the Empire.
• The government set aside £20 million for compensation of slave owners for their "property“.
• It did not, however, offer the former slaves any sort of compensation.
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Former Slaves seen here striking off their chains and burying them in the sand.
They did assume certain white customs, for example, shirts and suspenders, wooly hats and jackets.
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Linking this painting to what we’ve been reading in class:
Jane Eyre:
• The character of Bertha Mason is suggested to be a second
generation Creole.
• Her grandmother was probably a slave in the West Indies who was
used as a supplement wife.
• Functions of a Creole.
• Slave Trade not really alluded to in Jane Eyre.
• Jane Eyre published in 1847, 14 years after Emancipation for Slaves
in British colonies.
Slave ship leaving the coast
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Even after the slaves were emancipated, European outlooks on their African neighbors were still frighteningly racist.
Even in 1931, almost 100 years later, Africans were still depicted with jet-black skin, big pink lips and displayed in a submissive, savage and primitive light.
Do they not seem to be portrayed almost as monkeys in these images?
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BIBLIOGRAPHYhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Congo#mediaviewer/File:Angry_King_in_Tintin.JPG
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833
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