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Negro heads

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Negro heads
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West India Scenery, with illustrations of negro ch Author: Bridgens, Richard / Illustrator: Bridgens, Richard R. Jennings & Co.: London, [1836?] Language: English Source/Shelfmark: 789.g.13, plate 20 'Negro heads with punishments for intoxication and dirt-eating'. There are representations of two of the 'various tribes of the west coast of Africa'. 'The tin collar is a punishment for drunkenness in females'. 'The mask is used as a punishment and preventive of the practice of dirt-eating ..'. Image taken from West India Scenery, with illustrations of negro character, the process of making sugar, &c, from sketches taken during a voyage to, and residence of seven years in, the island of Trinidad. [Plates, with accompanying text.].

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