This head-and-shoulder studio portrait of Pedro Tovookan Parris was possibly taken in c. 1855. Captured in eastern Africa at about the age of ten, Pedro Tovookan Parris was sold to a Portuguese enslaver in Zanzibar, and from there transported to Rio de Janeiro on the American brig the Porpoise, capt...
Date:
circa 1855
Collection:
Pedro Tovookan Parris (1833-1860) papers
GUSN:
190774
Ref. Code:
MS034.004.01