A slave is kneeling on the ground as Paul and Virginie try to protect him from a slave-owner holding a pipe and a stick. Engraving by G. Barrett, 1788, after J. Moreau.

  • Moreau, Jean Michel, 1741-1814.
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1788
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33075i
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A slave is kneeling on the ground as Paul and Virginie try to protect him from a slave-owner holding a pipe and a stick. Engraving by G. Barrett, 1788, after J. Moreau. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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An episode in Paul et Virginie, 1788, by Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. In an early episode Paul and Virginie ask a pipe-smoking landowner to pardon an emaciated woman slave who has fled from him, but in the present engraving the slave appears to be a man and not emaciated

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1788

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1 print : engraving

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Paul et Virginie demandent à un habitant la grace de son esclave. J. Moreau. G. Barrett sc.

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Wellcome Collection 33075i

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