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Cart whip -- used by the Negro drivers of the West Indies

Object Status:

Unlocated

Accession Date:

May 26, 1825

Primary Source Reference:

Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 126

Additional Source Text:

"This one had been in use several months in St. Martins."

Notes:

Dexter Stone (1791-1846) was a Philadelphia merchant and shipowner in partnership with Samuel Grant. In July 1820 he paid $20 to have his portrait (unlocated) painted by Bass Otis / https://www.americanantiquarian.org/proceedings/44517814.pdf