Freetown, Sierra Leone: African men wearing loincloths are pulling the carriage of a European man holding a rod. Lithograph, 1830.
- Date:
- Decr. 12th 1830
- Reference:
- 37921i
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The carriage is drawn by humans, while horses graze freely in fields. The words "free men" and "Freetown" in the lettering are underlined to emphasize the paradox that the men are free men acting like slaves. Coates and Blizard, coachmakers of Park Lane, London, exhibited a brougham at the Great Exhibition of 1851
Publication/Creation
London (26, Haymarket) : Thos. McLean, Decr. 12th 1830 ([London] (23. Leicester Square) : C. Motte)
Physical description
1 print : lithograph
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Productive free labour in Sierra Leone. Driving the black male at Freetown. The carriage in the foreground was built for a resident of Sierra Leone by Messrs. Coates and Blizard Coachmakers of London in June 1828. It was intended to be drawn, in the manner here delineated, by twenty four negroes of course free men, and as it is ascertained that such conveyances are the most common at Freetown, one or two additional ones were introduced to complete the scene.
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Wellcome Collection 37921i
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