The travels of these two men and their captor, John Pight / Pecht of Goose Creek, South Carolina, have not yet been entirely reconstructed. They were in Vienna in May 1722 and arrived in Breslau (today Wrocław, Poland) in September 1722, at which time these extraordinary prints of the men appeared in the Sammlung von Natur- und Medicin- wie auch hierzu gehörigen Kunst- und Literatur-Geschichten (“Breslauische Sammlungen”), an important German-language journal. In the fall of 1722 Pecht and the two “American Princes” traveled from Breslau to Dresden, arriving in Dresden on December 4, 1722.
Image from the holdings of the SLUB Dresden: Eph.hist.141 / Acta.Acad.141
Image from the holdings of the SLUB Dresden: Eph.hist.141 / Acta.Acad.141
For more information, see Craig Koslofsky, “Slavery and Skin: The Native Americans Ocktscha Rinscha and Tuski Stannaki in the Holy Roman Empire, 1722–1734,” in Beyond Exceptionalism: Traces of Slavery and the Slave Trade in Early Modern Germany, 1650–1850, ed. Rebekka von Mallinckrodt, Josef Köstlbauer, and Sarah Lentz (Berlin, Boston: DeGruyter Oldenbourg, 2021), pp. 81-108, and John Jeremiah Sullivan, “The Princes: A Reconstruction,” The Paris Review 200 (2012): 35-88.
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