COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Archive of Early American Images
Record
Accession number:
75-199
Record number:
75-199-2
JCB call number:
D833 L155p / 3-SIZE
Image title:
Planting the sugar-cane
Creator 1:
William Clark
Place image published:
London
Image publisher:
Infant School Society Depository
Image date:
[1833]
Image function:
plate 2
Technique:
lithograph, hand coloring
Image dimension height:
23.1 cm.
Image dimension width:
34 cm.
Page dimension height:
27.5 cm.
Page dimension width:
39.4 cm.
Materials medium:
ink, colors
Materials support:
paper
Languages:
English
Description:
Enslaved Black people plant sugar cane in the tilled squares. Includes slaves carrying sugar cane bundles for planting, windmill, hoes, fortification. and horses.
Source creator:
Ladies' society for promoting the early education of negro children.
Source Title:
[Views of sugar production on Antigua]
Source place of publication:
London
Source publisher:
Printed for Edward Suter
Source date:
[1833?]
notes:
Taken from William Clark's Ten views of the island of Antigua, London, 1823, six of the original images were used to compile this work for the Ladies's society. The images are accompanied by a large-print narrative describing each image, intended to be read by a class of beginning readers. Clark identifies this estate as being Bodkin's estate and the fort as being Monk's Hill, a military station, where signals are hoisted for communication with St. John's. The pieces of sugar cane are placed horizontally in the cane-hole.
Time Period:
1801-1850
References:
Clark, W. Ten views of the island of Antigua, No. 3
Provenance/Donor:
Acquired in 1975.
Owner and copyright:
©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
geographic area:
Caribbean Islands
Subject Area:
Artifacts, industry, and human activities
Subject headings:
Slavery--Caribbean area
Subject headings:
Sugar growing
Subject headings:
Sugar--Manufacture and refining--Caribbean area
Subject headings:
Sugarcane
Planting the sugar-cane
