Shaving dish, Musee d'histoire de Nantes, Nantes, France
Shaving dish, 1773, from Nantes, ceramic dish painted with an image of the slave ship Marie Seraphique, commemorating her campaign of 1773 when 333 blacks were sold in Santo Domingo, under the foreman Rene La Porte, in the Musee d'histoire de Nantes, in the Chateau des ducs de Bretagne, in Nantes, Pays de la Loire, France. The museum opened in 2007 and covers the history of Nantes, focusing on slavery, world wars, industrialisation and the chateau. Picture by Manuel Cohen
Picture No
13459045
Media ID
45382071
Size
7087px x 4725px
(7.0MB)
Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
