Wood Plank House, St. Vincent, West Indies, ca. 1898

Description

This type of thatched house was probably found during the later years of the slave period, in the early 19th century.

Source

Robert T. Hill, Cuba and Porto Rico (New York, 1898), facing p. 396.

Date Created

1898

Language

English

Rights

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

Identifier

NW0022

Spatial Coverage

Caribbean--St. Vincent

Item sets

Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses

Citation

"Wood Plank House, St. Vincent, West Indies, ca. 1898", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed February 18, 2020, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1467

This type of thatched house was probably found during the later years of the slave period, in the early 19th century.