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  • Legacies of slavery
  • Patch box
  • Porcelain sugar bowl
  • Small cup
  • 'The Black Boy' by William Windus
  • Gee's Bend quilt
  • 'The Hunted Slaves' by Richard Ansdell
  • Postcard depicting picaninny caricature
  • Advertisement for grate polish
  • Probate copy of the will of Thomas Leyland
  • Ku Klux Klan outfit
  • 'The Story of Little Black Sambo'
  • The Black Achievers Wall

Small cup with scene of a slave being whipped

White china printed in green, 19th century

75 diameter x 68mm high

Accession number MMM 54.171.486

Cup with printed scene of a slave being whipped

Small cup with a tropical scene showing an overseer whipping a kneeling and chained enslaved African and the verse:

'From Sun to Sun the Negro toils
No smiles reward his trusty care,
And when the indignant mind recoils,
His doom is whips and black despair'

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