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.)

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.

von Scholten, Frederick

1840

Danish

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NW0040

Caribbean--St. Croix

"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 27, 2020, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1442