Cotton Culture: Covering in the Seed

Description

This image shows a gang of enslaved men and women covering cotton seeds with dirt, while a white overseer on horseback watches. According to the text, "crows consider cotton seed a great delicacy, and the common method of keeping them away. . . is suspending a tin pan between high stakes, which is beaten by a stone swinging on a cord (HW, p. 346).

Source

Harper's Weekly (April 24, 1875), p. 344.

Language

English

Rights

Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.

Identifier

cottonculture-1875

Spatial Coverage

North America

Item sets

New World Agriculture & Plantation Labor

Citation

"Cotton Culture: Covering in the Seed", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed September 30, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1107
This image shows a gang of enslaved men and women covering cotton seeds with dirt, while a white overseer on horseback watches. According to the text, "crows consider cotton seed a great delicacy, and the common method of keeping them away. . . is suspending a tin pan between high stakes, which is beaten by a stone swinging on a cord (HW, p. 346).
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