Enslaved person Congo in livery invited to breakfast by an innkeeper in Waterford 21, and Mrs Barlow fainting in fear of her servant Congo 22. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Eliza Rotch Farrar’s The Adventures of Congo in Search of his Master, J. Harris and Son, London, 1823. Eliza Farrar, 1791-1870, was the daughter of a Nantucket whaling family who white several children’s books.

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