Caption, Jamaica Negroes Cutting Cane in their Working Dresses. Men and women in first gang cutting cane; supervised by a black driver with his staff.

H. T. De La Beche, Notes on the Present Condition of the Negroes in Jamaica (London, 1825), frontspiece. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)

English

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NW0055

Caribbean--Jamaica

"Sugar Cane Harvest, Jamaica, 1820s", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed March 20, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1111