- Created by
- Unidentified
- Subject of
- Captain da Cortá, Joaquin Antonio
- Date
- September 12, 1840
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 12 5/16 x 8 7/16 in. (31.3 x 21.4 cm)
- Description
- A ship certificate for the Brazilian slave ship the Convenção, captained by Joaquin Antonio da Corta. A single page certificate document with writing on the recto in brown ink by three different hands, in both Spanish and Portuguese. At the top left are two stamps: one oval-shaped in black ink depicting a large [2] beneath a rising sun motif; the other is in blue ink and depicts a rooster above a decorative banner reading [SELLO DEL (illegible) / 1810]. The content notes the ship left the coast of Rio de Janeiro and arrived at the port of Montevideo, Uruguay in 1840 with seven enslaved persons on board.
- Place depicted
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Latin America, South America
- Montevideo, Uruguay, Latin America, South America
- Classification
- Slavery and Freedom Objects
- Documents and Manuscripts
- Type
- certificates
- Topic
- Colonialism
- Commerce
- Portuguese colonialism
- Slave trade
- Slavery
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2010.1.235.1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Public domain
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




