Cartoon about slave, Henry Box Brown

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Cartoon about Henry Box Brown, a slave in North America who became famous after escaping from his owner to Canada by posting himself in a box. Once he got to Canada, Brown was free. Part of a collection made by Estlin, from Bristol who campaigned against slavery.

Date: unknown

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Object ID:17562/22

Prompt book from opera Inkle and Yarico

Front cover of opera prompt book, Inkle and Yarico

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Front cover of the prompt book for the comic opera, Inkle and Yarico , 1799.
An Indian woman is sold into slavery on Barbados by the man she had rescued and protected from her countrymen when he was shipwrecked. He then repented of his action towards the woman he had loved, redeemed her and married her.

Inkle and Yarico is a comic opera, which was written by George Colman the Younger in 1787.It is based on a supposedly true story told in Richard Ligons True and Exact History of the Island of Barbados.

A young man was shipwrecked on the South American coast and his life was saved by a young Indian woman.
He got off the island, taking her with him, and then sold her into slavery in Barbados.
This story was romanticised by Steele, writing in the Spectator in 1711.

Colman adapted Steeles story into his comic opera. It was very popular and was performed many times at different London theatres.

In Colmans version, Thomas Inkle, a young Englishman, is taking his fiance out to her father, the Governor of Barbados.
He is lost overboard with his servant and is marooned on an island.
They are saved from the cannibal locals by a young Indian woman, Yarico, and her servant.

Inkle and Yarico fall in love. Inkle and Yaricos servants also fall in love with eachother.
Inkle promises undying love to Yarico.

They are taken off the island by a British boat and taken to Barbados.
There, Inkle is reintroduced to civilised life and realises his position.
He applies economic theory rather than love to his situation, by choosing his fiance and selling Yarico as a slave.
His servant refuses to sell his Indian lover as a slave.

Inkle is then humiliated for his ingratatitude and betrayal of Yarico, repents his behaviour and marries her.

This story was romanticised by Steele, writing in the Spectator in 1711.

Colman adapted Steeles story into his comic opera. It was very popular and was performed many times at different London theatres.

In Colmans version, Thomas Inkle, a young Englishman, is taking his fiance out to her father, the Governor of Barbados.
He is lost overboard with his servant and is marooned on an island.
They are saved from the cannibal locals by a young Indian woman, Yarico, and her servant.

Inkle and Yarico fall in love. Inkle and Yaricos servants also fall in love with eachother.
Inkle promises undying love to Yarico.

They are taken off the island by a British boat and taken to Barbados.
There, Inkle is reintroduced to civilised life and realises his position.
He applies economic theory rather than love to his situation, by choosing his fiance and selling Yarico as a slave.
His servant refuses to sell his Indian lover as a slave.

Inkle is then humiliated for his ingratatitude and betrayal of Yarico, repents his behaviour and marries her.

Date: 1799

Copyright: Copyright BCC Record Office

Extract from opera Inkle and Yarico

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Extract from the prompt book for the comic opera, Inkle and Yarico, 1799.
An Indian woman is sold into slavery on Barbados by the man she had rescued and protected from her countrymen when he was shipwrecked. He then repented of his action towards the woman he had loved, redeemed her and married her.