RARE Black Men & Brazil Photographer Slave Trade History Antique 1800s Photo Ebay Original early-1860s

Original early-1860s

Man in a sheep costume

Mason at age of 18 C

My guess is that the family who owned this album lived in New York and had Georgia connections

photographed by Alberto Henschel

RARE Black Men & Brazil Photographer Slave Trade History Antique 1800s Photo Ebay Original early-1860sRare and original CDV by Alberto Henschel, Brazil, showing a group of slaves transporting a man in a sedan or litter. The man in the litter is white and bears a very strong resemblance to the photographer Henschel, compared to pictures of him I've found online I believe it's likely him. Bahia, Brazil was once a center of sugarcane cultivation, and slave trading, and at one time, 1 3 of all slaves taken from Africa were sent to Brazil, to be processed