Image Title:
Aesop (c. 620 – 564 BCE)

Note:
Example of a coin image from ancient Delphi thought by one antiquarian to represent Aesop.  “. . . a Negro slave “flat-nosed . . .with lips, thick and pendulous and a black skin from which he contracted his name (Esop being the same with Ethiop).” Read More  and Also here

Source:
Panofka, Theodor. 1849. Antikenkranz zum fünften Berliner Winckelmannsfest.  Berlin: Trautwein in Komm. Book at Heidelberger Historische Bestände - Digital

Subject:
Slavery - Historical Figures - History Maker - Coin - Greek - African - Delphi

Date:
1849

Rights:
Public Domain

Image:
SA-SLAVHF-43

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