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Image Reference
BEN6b
Source
Pierre Jacques Benoit, Voyage a Surinam . . . cent dessins pris sur nature par l'auteur (Bruxelles, 1839), plate xiii, fig. 26. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Comments
A young slave woman carrying a bouquet of flowers to a festival/party (center), an elaborately dressed domestic servant (left), and an elderly "missie" (former mistress of a white man, usually a free woman of color) walking with a cane and wearing a head tie under her straw hat (right).
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