Afro-Caribbean World in the British Empire in the Art of Agostino Brunias

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For Further Reading 📚
Mia L. Bagneris, Colouring the Caribbean: Race and the Art of Agostino Brunias (Manchester University Press, 2018)
Kay Dian Kriz, Slavery, Sugar, and the Culture of Refinement: Culture of Refinement: Picturing the British West Indies, 1700-1840 (Yale University Press, 2008)
Sarah Thomas, Witnessing Slavery: Art and Travel in the Age of Abolition (Yale University Press, 2019)
Image Credits 🖼
Joseph Smith Speer, A General Chart of the West Indies (London, 1796) / Library of Congress / Public Domain
Illustrations of an indigo plantation and a sugar plantation in Jean Baptiste du Tertre, Histoire générale des Antilles habitées par les François, tome 2 (Paris, 1667) / John Carter Brown Library / Internet Archive / Public Domain
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Planche 1 of “OEconomie Rustique, Sucrerie,” in Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux, et les arts méchaniques, tome 1 (Paris, 1762) / Smithsonian Libraries / Public Domain
A Family Being Served with Tea, ca. 1745 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Illustration of a sugar mill in Charles de Rochefort, Histoire naturelle et morale des Îles Antilles de l’Amérique (Rotterdam, 1681), p. 332 / Library Company of Philadelphia / Public Domain
Frontispiece to The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce (London, 1774) / John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library / Internet Archive / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, Planter and His Wife, with Servant, ca. 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, A Mother with Her Son and a Pony, ca. 1775 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, West Indian Creole Woman, with Her Black Servant, ca. 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, A West Indian Flower Girl and Two Other Free Women of Color, ca. 1769 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, Free West Indian Dominicans, ca. 1770 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, A Leeward Islands Carib Family outside a Hut, ca 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, West Indian Man of Color, Directing Two Carib Women with a Child, ca. 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, West Indian Women of Color, with a Child and Black Servant, ca. 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, Servants Washing a Deer, ca. 1775 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, Market Day, Roseau, Dominica, ca. 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, Free Women of Color with Their Children and Servants in a Landscape / Brooklyn Museum / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, View on the River Roseau, Dominica, 1770/80 / Art Institute of Chicago / Public Domain
James Mason, after George Robertson, A View in the Island of Jamaica, of the Spring-head of Roaring River on the Estate of William Beckford esqr., 1778 / Library of Congress / Public Domain
Jasperware Anti-Slavery Medallion by Josiah Wedgwood, around 1787 / Metropolitan Museum of Art / Public Domain - modified
Agostino Brunias, A Linen Market with a Linen-stall and Vegetable Seller in the West Indies, ca. 1780 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
Philip Audinet, after Agostino Brunias, A Negro Festival drawn from Nature in the Island of St. Vincent, in Bryan Edwards, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British Colonies in the West Indies, volume 2 (London, 1794) / John Adams Library at the Boston Public Library / Internet Archive / Public Domain
Agostino Brunias, A Negroes Dance in the Island of Dominica, 1779 / Yale Center for British Art / Public Domain
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[@GoobieAndDoobie]

thank you for making this video! It's amazing the extent that rulers of civilizations will go to to lie to themselves about the human cost of their wealth. It was encouraging and empowering that the viewer is can interpret images in her own way, regardless of the intent of the artist or the artist's patrons. I liked the pictures of the dances and the "subversive" drums. Great music and audio too

[@ArtStoryLab]

It’s like.... you know me or something 😜

[@danaderchin]

Thank you so much for this! I teach a Caribbean history class at a high school. This video is super useful for my lesson on Europeans in the Caribbean.

[@rubenaalexander5007]

I remember looking for Agostino Brunias on RUclips and being disappointed last year when I was doing my history project. I distinctly remember it just being a slideshow of paintings with little to no background information given to them. I was surprised you gave so much AND provided some analysis. To really put the icing on the cake, you also provided a counter argument for interpretation. This video was just perfect and I really enjoyed it.

[@Wadadli_bear]

Really good and informative video

[@sexidork2001]

I’ve always been fascinated by this artist. Thank you for your analysis.

[@TeaSpaceFannie]

Just found out I'm related to this guy. Doing a deep dive and found this vid. Thank u for the info. Also it's (dom-in-neeka) pronunciation 💜