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fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory: 18thcenturylove: Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape by Agostino Brunias, ca. 1764-1796 The people depicted here are from the Caribbean island of Dominica, which became a British colony in 1763 after spending decades under French rule. Communities of freed and free-born people of African ancestry, who were often, but not always, of mixed race, existed throughout the Caribbean and Latin America from the earliest years of the colonial period. Their relative social status within their respective societies really varied tremendously from one colony to the other. This painting shows the diversity of racial admixture and social positions found in the island’s Black community. However, most Blacks in Dominica where not nearly as prosperous as the subjects of this painting. Slavery was abolished in the island in 1834. At the Brooklyn Museum. Awesome!  Thanks for the extra info, FYLAH!  I actually had this marked to reblog, but I wanted to find some more info on it before I did, so you did the leg work!  18th C love, this is one of my favorite things you have ever posted!  A really lovely example of 18th century hats and turbans on both men and women and children, and I love that we are seeing people of color represented in a painting from this period!  We don’t see that enough. 

fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

18thcenturylove:

Free Women of Color with their Children and Servants in a Landscape
by Agostino Brunias, ca. 1764-1796

The people depicted here are from the Caribbean island of Dominica, which became a British colony in 1763 after spending decades under French rule. Communities of freed and free-born people of African ancestry, who were often, but not always, of mixed race, existed throughout the Caribbean and Latin America from the earliest years of the colonial period. Their relative social status within their respective societies really varied tremendously from one colony to the other. This painting shows the diversity of racial admixture and social positions found in the island’s Black community. However, most Blacks in Dominica where not nearly as prosperous as the subjects of this painting. Slavery was abolished in the island in 1834.

At the Brooklyn Museum.

Awesome!  Thanks for the extra info, FYLAH!  I actually had this marked to reblog, but I wanted to find some more info on it before I did, so you did the leg work!  18th C love, this is one of my favorite things you have ever posted!  A really lovely example of 18th century hats and turbans on both men and women and children, and I love that we are seeing people of color represented in a painting from this period!  We don’t see that enough. 

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