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1.
A rebel negro armed & on his guard [graphic]

Creator:
Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 December 1794]
Call Number:
794.12.01.08
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A Black rebel holds a musket in his right hand as he turns to his left looking up apprehensively. Around his waist is a bandolier with a pouch and a hatchet. At his feet is the skull of a human head. Behind him on the right in the distance are two Bl...
Alternative Title:
Rebel negro armed and on his guard
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st 1794 by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Enslaved persons, Indians of South America, Rebels, and Rifles
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A rebel negro armed & on his guard [graphic]

2.
Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation [graphic]

Creator:
Benedetti, Michele, 1745-1810, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 December 1792]
Call Number:
792.12.01.03
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A young Arawak native American woman, shown full-length and wearing a beaded apron and standing with her right foot posed on a small rock. She holds a parrot held high in her right hand and a bow and arrow in her left. On the left in the distance anot...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1792, by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Indians of South America, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Hunting, and Parrots
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation [graphic]

3.
The skinning of the Aboma snake, shot by Cap. Stedman [graphic]

Creator:
Blake, William, 1757-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:
[2 December 1793]
Call Number:
793.12.02.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
An Arawak native slits the throat of a large Aboma snake that is hanging from a branch of a tree, suspended by a rope around its neck. Two other Arawak natives pull at the rope to hoist the snake higher. Captain Stedman, his back to the viewer, direct...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 2d, 1793 by J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Name):
Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797,
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Indians of South America, Hunting, and Snakes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The skinning of the Aboma snake, shot by Cap. Stedman [graphic]

4.
Robert J. Brown diary : manuscript

Creator:
Brown, Robert J., active 1834-1835
Published / Created:
1834 December 5-1835 April 6.
Call Number:
GEN MSS VOL 733
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
113
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Autograph manuscript diary written by Robert J. Brown during travel from Boston to Florida Territory, 1834-1835. Entries describe travel by steamboat, stagecoach, and railroad, and record impressions of natural features, commerce, urban development, ...
Description:
Spring Garden, a sugar plantation near De Leon Springs, Volusia County, Florida Territory, was acquired in 1830 by Orlando Savage Rees (1796-1852), of Stateburg, South Carolina. In 1835 December, during the Second Seminole War, Spring Garden was occu...
Subject (Geographic):
Florida, Volusia County., Florida., South Carolina, Charleston., Virginia, Richmond., South Carolina., Virginia., De Leon Springs (Fla.), Florida Panhandle (Fla.), Saint Augustine (Fla.), Saint Johns River (Fla.), South Atlantic States, Spring Garden Plantation (Fla.), United States, Volusia County (Fla.), and Washington (D.C.)
Subject (Name):
Brown, Robert J., active 1834-1835. and Rees, Orlando Savage, 1796-1852.
Subject (Topic):
Alligator hunting, Black Seminoles, Indians of North America, Orange growers, Seminole Indians, Seminole War, 2nd, 1835-1842, Slave trade, Slavery, Sugar, Manufacture and refining, Sugar plantations, Description and travel, and History
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Robert J. Brown diary : manuscript

5.
Memoir of William Wells Brown : an American bondman

Creator:
Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Published / Created:
1859.
Call Number:
JWJ Zan B816 859M
Image Count:
21
Alternative Title:
William Wells Brown
Description:
BEIN: Original wrappers. (JWJ Zan B816 859M)
Publisher:
Anti-Slavery Office
Subject (Geographic):
Missouri. and United States
Subject (Name):
Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery and Enslaved persons
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Memoir of William Wells Brown : an American bondman

6.
English slavery, or, A picture of the times [graphic].

Creator:
Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1788?]
Call Number:
788.04.00.01+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A reduced copy probably from a book and resembling the folding plates to the 'Hibernian Magazine'. The groups are arranged from left to right as in British Museum satire no. 7301, but each figure is reversed and the groups are in two rows, one above t...
Alternative Title:
Picture of the times
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Pigot, Hugh, 1721?-1792, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, Smith Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818, and Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801
Subject (Topic):
Slavery and Antislavery movements
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > English slavery, or, A picture of the times [graphic].

7.
English slavery, or, A picture of the times [graphic].

Creator:
Byron, Frederick George, 1764-1792, printmaker
Published / Created:
April 1788.
Call Number:
788.04.13.01+ Boxed
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Alternative Title:
Picture of the times
Description:
Title etched below image on 2nd plate.
Publisher:
Published by William Holland, Printseller, at Garrick's Richard, No. 50 Oxford Street, near Berner's Street ...
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain.
Subject (Name):
George III, King of Great Britain, 1738-1820, George IV, King of Great Britain, 1762-1830, Charlotte, consort of George III, King of Great Britain, 1744-1818, William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837, Fitzherbert, Maria Anne, 1756-1837, Pitt, William, 1759-1806, Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797, Archer, Sarah West, Lady, 1741-1801, Thurlow, Edward Thurlow, Baron, 1731-1806, Hastings, Warren, 1732-1818, Frederick Augustus, Prince, Duke of York and Albany, 1763-1827, Pigot, Hugh, 1721?-1792, Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829, Smith Stanley, Edward, 1752-1834, Greville, Charles, 1762-1832, and Billington, Elizabeth, 1765-1818
Subject (Topic):
Slavery and Antislavery movements
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > English slavery, or, A picture of the times [graphic].

8.
An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : Containing the

Creator:
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
Published / Created:
1699.
Call Number:
Pequot C25
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Selections. 1699. English
Description:
Signatures: A⁴B-T⁸.
Publisher:
Printed by J. Darby for D. Brown at the Black Swan and Bible without Temple-Bar, J. Harris at the Harrow in Little Britain, and Andr. Bell at the Cross-Keys and Bible in Cornhil
Subject (Geographic):
Latin America., Spain, and America.
Subject (Topic):
Indians, Treatment of., Slavery, and Colonies
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : Containing the most exact relation ... of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians ...

9.
The skinning of the Aboma snake Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation / [graphic]

Creator:
Cook, Henry R., printmaker
Published / Created:
Novr. 20 1812.
Call Number:
812.11.20.01
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
The plate on the right shows, a young Arawak woman, shown full-length and wearing a beaded apron and standing with her right foot posed on a small rock. She holds a parrot held high in her right hand and a bow and arrow in her left; in the distance an...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, Paternoster Row
Subject (Geographic):
Suriname. and Guiana.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Indians of South America, Arrows, Bows (Weapons), Hunting, Parrots, and Snakes
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > The skinning of the Aboma snake Indian female of the Arrowauka Nation / [graphic]

10.
A view in America in 1778 [graphic]

Creator:
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
Augt. 1, 1778.
Call Number:
778.08.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene before an American fort and palisade, perhaps depicting the indifference of Congress to the sufferings of American soldiers and the pro-slavery attitude of the Americans. A black man lies wounded in the foreground, surrounded by cannon balls. ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. by M Darly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, America., United States, and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Colonies, History, Forts & fortifications, and Blacks
Found in:
Lewis Walpole Library > A view in America in 1778 [graphic]

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