Detail View: JCB Archive of Early American Images: Holeing a cane-piece
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Accession number:
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75-199
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Record number:
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75-199-1
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JCB call number:
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D833 L155p / 3-SIZE
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Image title:
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Holeing a cane-piece
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Creator 1:
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William Clark
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Place image published:
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London
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Image publisher:
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Infant School Society Depository
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Image date:
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[1833]
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Image function:
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plate 1
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Technique:
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lithograph, hand coloring
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Image dimension height:
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23.6 cm.
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Image dimension width:
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34.8 cm.
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Page dimension height:
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27.9 cm.
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Page dimension width:
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39.8 cm.
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Materials medium:
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ink, colors
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Materials support:
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paper
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Languages:
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English
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Description:
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Enslaved Black people till the soil in squares marked by sticks. Also includes a paddock filled with cattle and an old woman giving slave children a drink out of a bowl, as well as a dwelling, windmill, hoes, and domestic animals.
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Source creator:
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Ladies' society for promoting the early education of negro children.
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Source Title:
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[Views of sugar production on Antigua]
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Source place of publication:
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London
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Source publisher:
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Printed for Edward Suter
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Source date:
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[1833?]
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notes:
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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 Weatherill's estate and relates that cattle are penned in fallow ground to provide manure for the cane holes. A shelter is erected near the cattle in which a slave sleeps to prevent the cattle from escaping.
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Time Period:
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1801-1850
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References:
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Clark, W. Ten views of the island of Antigua, No. 2; http://www.sgvbg.org/sugarcane.html (May 2004)
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Provenance/Donor:
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Acquired in 1975.
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Owner and copyright:
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©John Carter Brown Library, Box 1894, Brown University, Providence, R.I. 02912
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geographic area:
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Caribbean Islands
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Subject Area:
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Artifacts, industry, and human activities
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Subject headings:
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Slavery--Caribbean area
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Subject headings:
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Sugar growing
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Subject headings:
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Sugar--Manufacture and refining--Caribbean area
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Subject headings:
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Sugarcane
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