Photo 30 Jul 53 notes fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory: Marketplace in Mompox, Colombia (1826) Image found in Alcide Dessalines d’Orbigny’s Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Amériques (1836). The author visited Mompox, a town in the interior of Colombia containing the largest proportion of free people of color in the region. He described its architecture and remarked on its busy and well-stocked markets. The main marketplace, shown in this engraving, was located on the banks of the Magdalena River.  (From the University of Virginia’s The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record)

fuckyeahlatinamericanhistory:

Marketplace in Mompox, Colombia (1826)

Image found in Alcide Dessalines d’Orbigny’s Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Amériques (1836). The author visited Mompox, a town in the interior of Colombia containing the largest proportion of free people of color in the region. He described its architecture and remarked on its busy and well-stocked markets. The main marketplace, shown in this engraving, was located on the banks of the Magdalena River. 

(From the University of Virginia’s The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record)

via Latin American History, F*ck Yeah!.

#history #colombia #mompox #slavery #19th c #alcide dessalines d'orbigny #voyage pittoresque dans les deux ameriques #Latin America #South America

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