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Image Reference
BEN17b
Source
Pierre Jacques Benoit, Voyage a Surinam . . . cent dessins pris sur nature par l'auteur (Bruxelles, 1839), plate xvii, fig. 35. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Comments
Three slave women dressed in every day clothing engaged in conversation or "making Takie-Takie." This language, the author writes, is composed of English, Dutch, and African; the group conversation is also called "Takie-Takie" (p. 21).
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