Sugar Cane Harvest, Jamaica, 1820s

Description

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.

Source

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)

Language

English

Rights

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

Identifier

NW0055

Spatial Coverage

Caribbean--Jamaica

Citation

"Sugar Cane Harvest, Jamaica, 1820s", 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/1111
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.
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