"A Young Negro Woman Slave, Carrying a Bouquet for a Party" (caption translation).This image shows an elaborately dressed domestic servant on the left and an elderly "missie" or mistress of a white man walking with a cane and wearing a head tie under her straw hat on the right. 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 26" 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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BEN6b

South America--Suriname--Paramaribo

"Une jeune négresse esclave, portant un bouquet pour une fête", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed March 20, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2391