Large framed ink drawing, probably late 19th C., depicting a bespectacled white man in suit seated beneath a tree, speaking to an elderly black man near two large hogshead barrels. Two black couples stand in the background. We don't know what specific instance is being depicted. Two other images by the same artist in a previous auction referenced actual events. While the style of the artist is skillfully cartoonish, only the white man is depicted as an individual human. The African Americans are depicted with features distorted in accordance with racist stereotypes of the period. The historical interest of the piece would be increased if the precise meaning of the scene could be identified.