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National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
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NPG.2015.108
Exhibition Label
This unusually precise image of Sancho was created less for sentimentality than for cataloguing property. The accompanying text describes him as “about five feet high, very black complexion, good teeth, not corpulent, but well-formed,” and “a fast walker,” and also notes that he had been trained as a barber. With particular irony, the advertisement states that if Sancho voluntarily returns to the service of his master, he shall be received with “kindness,” while anyone found to be harboring him will be punished. Sancho probably lived on Winthrop Sargent’s plantation near Natchez, Mississippi. The governor of the Mississippi Territory, Sargent resided on part of an eleven-thousand-acre plantation that at one time held over three hundred enslaved people.
Esta imagen tan precisa de Sancho no fue creada por motivos sentimentales, sino más bien con el objeto de catalogar una propiedad. La descripción nos dice que el hombre “medía unos cinco pies, de piel muy negra, buenos dientes, no corpulento pero sí bien formado”, “caminante veloz” y entrenado en el oficio de barbero. Irónicamente, el anuncio indica que si Sancho volviera por su propia voluntad al servicio de su amo, sería recibido con “bondad”, pero aquel que lo alber- gara sería castigado. Es probable que Sancho viviera en la plantación de Winthrop Sargent, cerca de Natchez, Misisipi. Sargent era gobernador del Territorio de Misisipi y residía en una plantación de once mil acres que en un momento llegó a tener más de trescientos esclavos.