Title: "The Choicest Pieces of her Cargo Were Sold at Auction"
Title
Title: "The Choicest Pieces of her Cargo Were Sold at Auction"
Subject
Slavery in New York
Description
This auction scene accompanies an article, "The New York Slave-Traders" (p. 293-303). The date 1643 is shown on the building behind the auctioneer's block and modern publishers sometimes assume to be the date of the illustration.
Source
Harpers New Monthly Magazine (Jan. 1895), p. 299. Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library; also Francis J. Dowd, ed., Howard Pyle's Book of the American Spirit (New York and London, 1923), facing p. 55.
Date
January 1895
Contributor
"The Choicest Pieces of her Cargo Were Sold at Auction", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed January 11, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1911
Rights
Public Domain
Original Format
drawing
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Citation
Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was an American illustrator and author, primarily for young people. He is credited with creating what has become the modern stereotype of pirate dress., “Title: "The Choicest Pieces of her Cargo Were Sold at Auction",” Hurley Mountain Stories, accessed June 19, 2026, /items/show/87.