"Workshop of a Shoemaker" (caption translation). This engraving shows several people in front of a thatched-roof house and a shed. Benoit described how "a shoemaker is measuring a free black man for a pair of shoes; the man on the left, a slave is making shoes. . . only free people of color have the right to wear shoes. . . [and in the center] an elderly woman spins cotton using a spindle" (p. 21). Pierre Jacques Benoit (1782-1854) was a Belgian artist, who visited the Dutch colony of Suriname on his own initiative for several months in 1831. He stayed in Paramaribo, but visited plantations, maroon communities and indigenous villages inland.

"Figure 33" in Pierre Jacques Benoit, Voyage à Surinam; description des possessions néerlandaises dans la Guyane (Bruxelles: Société des Beaux-Arts de Wasme et Laurent, 1839).

Benoit, Pierre Jacques

French

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South America--Suriname--Paramaribo

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