Another Conder purchase: The White Negress

chaze215

Any and all thoughts/comments appreciated.

savoyspecial

nice token!


a cursory google search turned up the following:


Mrs Newsham. An albino black African woman, Mrs Newsham also exhibited herself at
Bartholomew Fair in 1795 and was known as the ‘White Negress’. Born in Jamaica, she
was sent as a gift from her owner to his son in London. She was sold on to two men who
exhibited her across England. She continued to exhibit herself after she gained her
freedom and met and married an Englishman, with whom she had six children

chaze215

Yeah, the history behind some of the conder tokens is very interesting.

spoon

Kind of perverse, but that's history I guess. Interesting.

Reminds me of the case of "The Hottentot Venus" Sara Baartman.

BCNumismatics

<< <i>Any and all thoughts/comments appreciated.


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Chaz,
That's an amazing traders' currency token that you have got there.

It's a shame that Larry,who posts here isn't a member here,as he is a serious collector of these.

Aidan.

chaze215

<< <i>Reminds me of the case of "The Hottentot Venus" Sara Baartman. >>



Huh? I am not familiar with this one.

Aidan: Thanks for the comments. I would be curious to get Larry's thoughts on this one.

spoon

Wikipedia link

Sara Baartman was an African (Khoisan) woman taken to England to be displayed as a cultural curiosity, playing on stereotypes of African women, etc. Kind of like the woman featured on the Conder, they bandied her about and charged a fee. This was only a decade or so after that piece was made. Her skeleton, preserved genitals and brain were still on display until relatively recently.

7Jaguars

Wow, not exactly PC for current times!

Blackhawk

This reminds me of the old schtick about the "Bob" circus...

World's tallest midget
World's only talking mute
World's only stripeless zebra

etc., etc.....