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- Collection: Bridgens' West India Scenery
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Stocks for hands and feet with bed and hand stocks. (From approved models)
Illustrations of slaves in contraptions used for torture. At top: a man stands with both hands and feet placed between pieces of boards; below a woman sits on a bed with both her hands and feet between pieces of board.
Negro Superstition
A group of Africans who seem to be engaged in a ritual. There is a dead chicken on a table, fruits are hanging from a beam in the ceiling and one man seems to be choking another who is kneeling in front of him.
Sunday Morning in Town
Illustration of a man and woman, both with umbrellas in hand, standing by a wall. A servant stands beside them and is carrying a chair on his head with a bible on it.
No. 1,2,5,6, Negro, 3 and 4 Indian Characters
Illustration depicting portraits of four Negroes and two Indians. The Negro women at numbers one and six are adorned with headwraps and chains with cross pendants.
Sunday Morning in the Country
An illustration of a man and woman conversing in the country on a Sunday morning. The man is holding a tattered umbrella, is barefooted and holding a pair of shoes in his hands. The woman has a wooden carton with various animals and produce on her…
Sunday Morning in Town
Illustration of a man and woman, both with umbrellas in hand, standing by a wall. A servant stands beside them and is carrying a chair on his head with a bible on it. Here indeed, dress not having yet become a science, the most laughable…
Sunday Morning in the Country (2)
An illustration of a man and woman conversing in the country on a Sunday morning. The man is holding a tattered umbrella, is barefooted and holding a pair of shoes in his hands. The woman has a wooden carton with various animals and produce on her…
Planting sugar canes
An illustration of enslaved men and women planting sugar cane from Richard Bridgen's book 'West Indian Scenery'. The land is being cleared, the field is formed into beds and, as is termed, round ridged and lined off with a chain for the cane holes,…
Negro mode of nursing
Drawing of a woman carrying her infant child in one hand while holding a thermos in the other. There are two huts behind her and a few banana and coconut trees in the background.The manner of carrying their children astride on the hip is believed to…
