A couple dance together under a lush tree with large fruit hanging from its branches. They are accompanied by two men playing instruments, a drum and tambourine as one woman claps along to the music. Others, including a small girl, stand and converse
Alternative Title:
Negroes dance in the Island of St. Dominica
Description:
Titles engraved below image, in French and English.
Publisher:
Chez Depeuille, rue St. Denis, la boutique attenant St. Jacques l'Hopital, et au Palais Royal au Pavillon près le bassin
Subject (Geographic):
Haiti.
Subject (Topic):
Black people, Dance, Indigenous peoples, and Musical instruments
Autograph letters, signed, official documents, notes and a case file documenting various aspects of French rule in the West Indies, almost entirely dating from the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic periods. Manuscripts include a lengthy letter by "M...
Description:
In French.
Subject (Geographic):
Haiti., France, America., Haiti, Martinique., and West Indies, French.
Subject (Name):
Delahun, C., Noailles, Louis Marie, vicomte de, 1756-1804., and Rochambeau, Donatien Marie Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de, 1750-1813.
Subject (Topic):
Law, Slavery, Colonies, Administration, History, and Politics and government
