a powerful leader of mixed African and European heritage in the southern part of the colony
and positions the book among the earliest printed manuals to treat pastel as an autonomous artistic medium rather than a subsidiary technique
was also commissioned to design several statues for the gardens of Het Loo
a French female artist from a family of Protestant intellectuals with strong ties to the Netherlands
In addition to accounting for all the blood shed by thousands of Africans uprooted from their lands
A surgeon defends slavery Slavery a powerful leader of mixedJesse Foot (17441826). A defence of the planters in the West Indies; comprised in four arguments I. On comparative humanity, II. On comparative slavery; III. On the African slave trade, and IV. On the condition of negroes in the West Indies. London: J. Debrett. 1792. 8, iv, 101 pp. Later half calf with marbled sides, gold tooled title on spine. New endpapers. Second edition, issued in the same year as the first, of this notorious defence of slavery in