"Two Slave Drivers and a Backwoodsman with His Rifle."
File Name
Q45055
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Item Title
"Two Slave Drivers and a Backwoodsman with His Rifle. "
Description
Plate 20 from FORTY ETCHINGS : FROM SKETCHES MADE WITH THE CAMERA LUCIDA , IN NORTH AMERICA IN 1827 AND 1828 by Captain Basil Hall . From the author's description : "The figure on the left in this Sketch , was a Black man in charge of a plantation in South Carolina , which we visited in the absence of the proprietor . He was a man of information , and really very well bred - though he could neither read nor write . I did not suppose it possible that a negro in the situation of a slave-driver , could be so much like a gentleman - but so it was. The other driver on the right , is a native African , born near Timbuctoo [sic] . When twelve years old , he and his family were captured , and sent into slavery . On their way to the coast a lion , it seems , attacked the party , and overthrew this lad amongst others . On his breast the marks of what he said were lion's claws are distinctly to be seen , and he told me that he remembered all the incidents which occurred on this occasion . He belongs now to a plantation in the State of Georgia . The center figure is a Backwoodsman of the State of Indiana , with a long rifle in his hand . He is one of those free and easy settlers called Squatters , who rove about in the unoccupied lands of the Western States , till they find a `location ' to suit them, and then they squat down upon it , declaring themselves the lords and masters of the property . The person here represented looked the character so well , that I should not have liked much to dispute his title . The rifle he carried was upwards of four feet long in the barrel , and carried a shot so small , that upwards of 100 of them went to the pound . With this he brought down squirrels , and, as he told me , even birds on the wing . These exploits , however , I did not witness. "
Date
1827-1828
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Time Period
1820-1829
Subject
African Americans Slaves
Type
Still image
Format
Prints Sketches
Author
Hall, Basil
Collection or Series Title
Forty etchings: from sketches made with the camera lucida, in North America, in 1827 and 1828
Box Number
E165.H16 1830
Catalog Record
http://adahcat.archives.alabama.gov/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=23118
Repository
Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Language
English
Rights
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Original Size
8.9 by 5.3 inches
Digital Format
600 dpi tiff
Uploaded batch
2011_07_scans_images
Date created
2012-01-24
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