Enslaved person Congo begging on a street corner in Cork 11, and Congo threatened by a gentleman with a stick while begging 12. 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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