Sugar Plantation, St. Croix, Danish West Indies, ca. 1840
Description
View of the La Grange plantation by Frederick von Scholten with town of Frederiksted in background. Slave gang in foreground is harvesting field of sugar cane; left center are sugar works, windmill, and plantation yard. (Thanks to Leif Svalesen and George Tyson for assistance in identifying this item.)
Source
Published in Leif Svalesen, The Slave Ship Fredensborg, translated by Pat Shaw and Selena Winsnes (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle publishers, 2000), p. 196; original in The Danish Maritime Museum, Kronborg, Denmark.
Creator
von Scholten, Frederick
Language
Danish
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
NW0040
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--St. Croix
Citation
"Sugar Plantation, St. Croix, Danish West Indies, ca. 1840", 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/1442