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Loango Family  wikidata:Q61986962 reasonator:Q61986962
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After William Blake  (1757–1827)  wikidata:Q41513 s:en:Author:William Blake q:en:William Blake
 
After William Blake
Alternative names
W. Blake; Uil'iam Bleik; Blake
Description English-British painter, poet, theologian, collector, printmaker and illustrator
Date of birth/death 28 November 1757 Edit this at Wikidata 12 August 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death London London
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London; Felpham Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q4233718,P1877,Q41513
Reinier Vinkeles  (1741–1816)  wikidata:Q512648
 
Reinier Vinkeles
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Reinr Vinkeles, Rein J. Vinkeles
Description Dutch printmaker, drawer, etcher and engraver
Date of birth/death 12 January 1741 Edit this at Wikidata 30 January 1816 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Amsterdam Amsterdam
Work period circa 1762-1816
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Amsterdam (ca. 1762-1816), Paris (1770-1771)
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creator QS:P170,Q512648
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Loango Family
label QS:Len,"Loango Family"
label QS:Lfr,"Loango famille"
label QS:Lnl,"Loango huisgezin"
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Identifier: narrativeoffivey02sted (find matches)
Title: Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America; from the year 1772, to 1777: elucidating the history of that country, and describing its productions ... with an account of the Indians of Guiana, & negroes of Guinea
Year: 1806 (1800s)
Authors: Stedman, John Gabriel, 1744-1797
Subjects: Slavery -- Suriname Indians of South America -- Guiana Suriname -- Description and travel Suriname -- History To 1803
Publisher: London, J. Johnson, & T. Payne
Contributing Library: Brown University Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brown University

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consisting of 50,000, are totally extinct once every twenty
years. Truth and justice however oblige me to declare, that
the inhuman barbarities I have been just describing are
not universal. Compassionate Heaven has ordained some
exceptions, as I shall impartially shew, by reversing the
picture: not like some writers who have treated this sub-
ject, and carefully concealed the most pleasing touches of
goodness and humanity, whilst only the darkest shades
have been exposed to the public eye, but by candidly ex-
hibiting both sides with equal justice and precision; and
it is indeed with pleasure I can affirm, that the negro
slaves on some estates are treated, in my opinion, as men
ought to be treated; and this mode of conduct might
still be more general, by amending the laws, which ought
not corruptly to invest human nature with what it is cer-
tain to abuse—an authority completely despotic. No
master surely ought to be entrusted with the dangerous
power of taking away the life of his slaves with impunity;
and
7

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Blake sculpt

Family of Negro Slaves from Loango


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Date 1806
date QS:P571,+1806-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper Edit this at Wikidata
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  • bookcentury:1800
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  • booksubject:Slavery____Suriname
  • booksubject:Indians_of_South_America____Guiana
  • booksubject:Suriname____Description_and_travel
  • booksubject:Suriname____History_To_1803
  • bookpublisher:London__J__Johnson____T__Payne
  • bookcontributor:Brown_University_Library
  • booksponsor:Brown_University
  • bookleafnumber:355
  • bookcollection:brownuniversity
  • bookcollection:blc
  • bookcollection:americana
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