1857 Wood Engraving Caffre Chief South Africa Racist Portrait Perry XGA5 OL1 Photography by Tweedie

Photography by Tweedie

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1857 Wood Engraving Caffre Chief South Africa Racist Portrait Perry XGA5 OL1 Photography by TweedieThis is an original 1857 black and white wood engraving of a portrait of a Caffre Chief of South Africa from United States Naval Commodore Matthew C. Perry's expedition to the Orient. Between the years of 1852 and 1854, President Millard Filmore ordered United States Navy Commodore Matthew Clabraith Perry to lead a squadron to Japan in order to establish diplomatic relations, open economic trade ports and protect American property and seamen in the