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- A study on the Enslaved and free Blacks in France and Saint Domingue (Haiti) as seen in the opening decades of the nineteenth century in the paintings and drawings by Theodore Gericault, a foremost exponent of the Roantic movement in France. The book consists of nine chapters, studying various aspects of Gericault's response to Blacks. It has 16 colored plates and almost 50 blackened white illustrations.