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“Kaarte Van de Golf van Mexico en het Zuyd-America waar in Porto-Bello en Panama aangewezen warden”

by Daniel de La Feuille 1747 (Geographicus Fine Antique Maps)


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“A VOYAGE To Guinea, Brasil, and the West - Indies; In His Majesty’s Ships, the SWALLOW and WEYMOUTH.”

by John Atkins, Surgeon in the Royal Navy 1735(The Newberry)


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“SOME Historical Account of GUINNEA, ...”

by Anthony Benezet 1771(The Newberry)


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“THE WEST INDIAN ATLAS, ...”

by Thomas Je! eris, London, Sayer & Bennet 1775(The National Library of Russia)


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“Dutch Merchant with Slaves in a West Indies Hills”

by Anonymous c. 1700 - 1725(Rijksmuseum)


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Portrait of a Woman from St. Dominique, Now Haiti, Brought to Montreal, Canada, as a Slave in 1792

by Canadian Artist, François Malépart de Beaucourt 1786(McCord Museum)


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"Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape”

by Agostino Brunias c. 1764(Brooklyn Museum)


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"A Family of Chairaibes Drawn from the Life in St. Vincent”

by Agostino Brunias c. 1765(Private Collection)


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"Chatoyer, the Chief of the Black Chairaibes in St. Vincent with his Wives”

by Agostino Brunias c. 1765 - 1768(Private Collection)


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Treaty Between the British & Carib Chiefs, Chatoyer Prominent Among Them

by Agostino Brunias c. 1773(Private Collection)


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A Planter, His Wife, & Their Servant

by Agostino Brunias, Italian Artist active in Britain c. 1770(Yale Center for British Art)


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“FREE NATIVES OF DOMINICA.”

After Agostino Brunias 1780(Yale Center for British Art)


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“FREE NATIVES OF DOMINICA.”



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A West Indian Flower Girl & Two Free Women of Color



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“THE WEST INDIA FLOWER GIRL.”



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“THE BARBADOES MULATTO GIRL.”



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Servants Washing a Deer in the West Indies



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A Mother with her Son and a Pony



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“The Negroe’s Dance in the Island of Dominica”

by Agostino Brunias 1779(Christie’s)


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“THIS PLATE (representing a NEGROE’s DANCE in the ISLAND of DOMINICA) is humbly dedicated to...”



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“THIS PLATE (representing a NEGROE’s DANCE in the ISLAND of DOMINICA) is humbly dedicated to...”



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Free West Indian Creoles



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West Indian Women with Child & Servant



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A Linen Market in the West Indies

by Agostino Brunias, Italian. Active in Britain (1758-1770; 1777-1780s) c. 1780(Yale Center for British Art)


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The Linen Market, Santa Domingo

by Agostino Brunias c. 1775(Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Madrid Spain)


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West Indian Creole Woman and Her Servant

by Agostino Brunias c. 1780(Yale Center for British Art)


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“Two Caribbean Women Returning from the Market”

by Agostino Brunias c. 1770 - 1780(Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Madrid Spain)


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Caribbean Servant Women from St. Vincente



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Creole Women and a Servant

by Agostino Brunias c. 1770 - 1780(Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Madrid SpainPrivate Collection)


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“The Dance of the Handkerchief”



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“Caribbean Woman in Front of a Hut”



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“Dancing Scene in the West Indies”

by Agostino Brunias c. 1780(Tate Gallery)


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“West Indian Landscape with Figures Promenading Before a Stream” by Agostino Brunias c. 1780

(Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Madrid Spain)


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Caribbean Women Doing Laundry



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“Free Women of Dominica Bathing in a Stream”

by Agostino Brunias c. 1770 - 1780(Christie’s)


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A Leeward Islands Carib Family



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“Danse d'Esclaves”

by Agostino Brunias c. 1780(Musée d'Aquitaine - Bordeaux)


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“Entourage d’Augustin Brunias , Portrait d’une famille avec une nourrice tenant un enfant dans ses bras”

by Agostino Brunias c. 1770(Musée d'Aquitaine - Bordeaux)


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Portrait d'Armand Gatereau, Directeur du Journal Français à Saint Domingue



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“Free Women of Dominica”



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“A NEGROE FESTIVAL...”

After Agostino Brunias c. 1780(Private Collection)


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Button Depicting West Indies Scenes After Agostino Brunias c. 1790

(Cooper - Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum)


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Button Depicting a West Indian Scene After Agostino Brunias c. 1790



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The Padlock was a two Act Opera by Charles Dibden

that debuted at the Drury Lane Theatre in London,England, in 1768. It featured “Mungo”, a servant from

the West Indies portrayed by Dibden in blackface.


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“Mr. DIBDBEN in the Character of MUNGO in the Celebrated Opera of the PADLOCK.”

by Carington Bowles “1762” (The British Museum)


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“Mr. DIBDBEN in the Character of MUNGO in the Celebrated Opera of the Padlock”

by Carington Bowles 1769


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“Mr. DIBDBEN in the Character of MUNGO in the Celebrated Opera of the Padlock”

Printed for R. Sayer c. 1769(Victoria & Albert)


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Title page & lyrics of The Padlock, play by Isaac Bickersta ! e, music by Charles Dibdin(New York Public Library)


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