The First Day of the Yam Custom Contributor: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
![Credit: Image Reference B018, as shown on www.slaveryimages.org, compiled by Jerome Handler and Michael Tuite, and sponsored by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia Library. <i>The First Day of the Yam Custom</i>](/_images/A0001_image0003.jpg)
This colored engraving features the Asante king adorned in gold, while surrounded by his subjects during the Yam Ceremony. Flags of European powers involved in Gold Coast trading surround the king’s large red state umbrella, which is crowned with a golden Elephant.
- Origin:
- London, England
- Date:
- 1819
- Item type: