15 februari 2017
Wilson Chinn
(http://valley.lib.virginia.edu/images_search_results.html?q=db:images).
Image date - 00-00-1863
Source - U. S. Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barracks
Subject type - African Americans
Title - Wilson Chinn, a branded slave from Louisiana, also exhibiting instruments of torture used to punish slaves
14 februari 2017
Kru
Image & text source: Culture of Liberia
Histories of the region, therefore, generally begin with the arrival of the Portuguese traders in the mid-1400s, and the rise of the trans-Atlantic trade. Coastal groups traded several goods with Europeans, but the area became known as the Grain Coast, because of its rich supply malaguetta pepper grains.
Navigating the coastline was not that easy, though, particularly for the large ocean-going Portuguese vessels, and the European traders relied on Kru sailors, who became the primary middlemen in the trade. Due to their sailing and navigation skills, the Kru began working on European ships, including slave trading ships. Their importance was such that Europeans began referring to the coast as Kru Country, despite the fact that the Kru were one of the smaller ethnic groups, amounting to only 7% of Liberia's population today.
In 1816, the future of Kru Country took a dramatic turn due to an event that took place thousands of miles away: the formation of the American Colonization Society (ACS). The ACS wanted to find a place to re-settle free-born black Americans and freed slaves, and they chose the Grain Coast.
In 1822, the ACS founded Liberia as a colony of the United States of America. Over the next few decades 19,900 African-American men and women migrated to the colony. By this time, the United States and Britain had also outlawed the slave trade (though not slavery), and when the American navy captured slave-trading ships, they liberated the slaves on board and settled them in Liberia. Approximately 5,000 African 're-captured' slaves were settled in Liberia.
Image & text source: A Brief History of Liberia
11 februari 2017
10 februari 2017
Girl Guides and Boy Scouts picnic
Title proper - Girl Guides and Boy Scouts picnic in the wilds, Vancouver; box 38 "Guides".
Attributions and conjectures - The photographer is undetermined.
Date(s) - [1910 to 1916] (Creation)
Fort St. John Girl Guides
Title proper - Fort St. John Girl Guides
Attributions and conjectures - The photographer is undetermined.
Date(s) - 1952 (Creation)
09 februari 2017
Meerkat
(ca. 2003); New Dutch Graphic Design
Last Time Forever
Foto 1 en 2: Scheveningen. Foto 3: Westervoort.
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