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historyofbarbados: From The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in Americas database. Engraving is from 1796. Description from that site: Engraving of Pringle at the age of about 36 sitting in front of her hotel/tavern/house of prostitution in Bridgetown, capital of Barbados; man on left has elephantiasis. Rachel Pringle was born a slave around 1753, the daughter of an African woman and her master, a Scottish schoolmaster. In the 1770s, she became the first free woman of color to own a hotel-tavern (and house of prostitution) in Barbados; when she died in 1792, at the age of 38, she was a relatively wealthy woman. See Jerome S. Handler, Joseph Rachell and Rachael Pringle-Polgreen: Petty Entrepreneurs, in D.G. Sweet and G. B. Nash, eds., Struggle and Survival in Colonial America (Univ. of California Press, 1981), pp. 376-391. Slide of engraving, courtesy of the late Neville Connell, Director of the Barbados Museum.) I saw this image of Pringle multiple times in the few weeks I was in Barbados. I love it. What a fascinating image!

historyofbarbados:

From The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in Americas database.

Engraving is from 1796.

Description from that site:

Engraving of Pringle at the age of about 36 sitting in front of her hotel/tavern/house of prostitution in Bridgetown, capital of Barbados; man on left has elephantiasis. Rachel Pringle was born a slave around 1753, the daughter of an African woman and her master, a Scottish schoolmaster. In the 1770s, she became the first free woman of color to own a hotel-tavern (and house of prostitution) in Barbados; when she died in 1792, at the age of 38, she was a relatively wealthy woman. See Jerome S. Handler, Joseph Rachell and Rachael Pringle-Polgreen: Petty Entrepreneurs, in D.G. Sweet and G. B. Nash, eds., Struggle and Survival in Colonial America (Univ. of California Press, 1981), pp. 376-391. Slide of engraving, courtesy of the late Neville Connell, Director of the Barbados Museum.)

I saw this image of Pringle multiple times in the few weeks I was in Barbados. I love it.

What a fascinating image!

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Physiognomical Studies, 1796.  By Isaac Cruikshank Cruikshank!   Not just Hermione’s cat, but also a wonderful and prolific illustrator and satirist from the late 18th and early 19th century!  His sons went on in the same field, so there are many excellent illustrations with that unusual name attached to them. Shout-out to the wonderful Jane Austen’s World for posting this image!

Physiognomical Studies, 1796.  By Isaac Cruikshank

Cruikshank!   Not just Hermione’s cat, but also a wonderful and prolific illustrator and satirist from the late 18th and early 19th century!  His sons went on in the same field, so there are many excellent illustrations with that unusual name attached to them.

Shout-out to the wonderful Jane Austen’s World for posting this image!

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