View of Butler's Bay by Frederick von Scholten. A European brig sailing along north coast. View shows sugar plantation with windmills, manor (great) house, and slave houses in foreground. (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. 123; original in The Danish Maritime Museum, Kronborg, Denmark.

von Scholten, Frederick

Danish

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

NW0038

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 September 25, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1443