Tobacco Production, Virginia, 18th cent.
Description
A tobacco label, The Virginia Planters Best Tobacco, shows pipe-smoking white planter surrounded by slaves with long-handled hoes; one of latter shades the former from the sun with an umbrella.
Source
Original in the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (slide, courtesy, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation).
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
NW0046
Spatial Coverage
North America--Virginia
Item sets
Citation
"Tobacco Production, Virginia, 18th cent.", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed February 2, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1118