Books and Enslavement

Hughes' includes many engraved plates of plants: here is depicted the guaiacum officinale, also known as roughbark lignum-vitae, guaiacwood or gaïacwood. The plate is dedicated to the Archbishop of York, whose name appears in the list of subscribers.
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<b>Author:</b> Griffith Hughes<br>
<b>Title:</b><i> The Natural History of Barbados </i> (London, 1750)<br>
<b>Shelfmark:</b> O.3.26

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Hughes' includes many engraved plates of plants: here is depicted the guaiacum officinale, also known as roughbark lignum-vitae, guaiacwood or gaïacwood. The plate is dedicated to the Archbishop of York, whose name appears in the list of subscribers.

Author: Griffith Hughes
Title: The Natural History of Barbados (London, 1750)
Shelfmark: O.3.26

0.3.26 Enslavement exhibition