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SLAVERY - ABOLITIONISM -- "TRAITE DES NÊGRES. Quel contrat infame, l'un marchande ce qui n'appartient à personne. L'autre vend la propriété de la nature" - "L'AFRICAIN HOSPITALIER. Les noirs sont d'un caractère doux et humain; (…)" - Paris, Depeuille, n.d. (c. 1800). 2 stipple-engr., cold. by hand, by Rollet after Morland. c. 345 x 450 mm each (image size) w. captions engr. underneath. (Both tipped in on mount, margins trimmed, traces of wear/use, both w. tear in right outer margin running into image, but in reasonable condition).

A pair of French stipple-engraved versions of English mezzotints, contrasting the hospitality shown to shipwrecked Europeans by Africans and the enslavement of Africans by Europeans.

€ 200

uitslag € 2800

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