“…Similar to the preceding discussion on infanticide emas, the display of some slavery-related offerings engaged wider agendas. Francisco Eduardo de Andrade (2016), proposes that some slave owners commissioned ex-votos to project themselves as benevolent in both religious and societal contexts. This might explain why some owners credited themselves-by first, middle, last name and self-portrait-in the petitioning, commissioning, and administering of offerings related to a slave's well-being (i.e.…”