Chapter 3: Images of African Women from John Stedman's "Narrative to Surinam"
Stedman describes them as "a set of living automations, such a resurrection of Skin and bones" and compares them "to walking Skeletons covered with a piece of tanned leather" (166).
Figure 2 (Oct 3-6, 1773), "Group of Negroes as Imported to be Sold for Slaves in Stedman, 167.
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