Angola funeral Contributor: The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
![Credit: Image Reference LCP-10, 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. Angola funeral](/_images/A0001_image0006.jpg)
Friends and family mourn and celebrate the life of a deceased Congolese man lying in state during a funeral ceremony. French Navy Officer Louis de Grandpré witnessed the courtyard funeral during his visit to Angola in the late eighteenth century.
- Origin:
- Paris, France
- Date:
- 1801
- Item type: