Sugar Plantation Mill Yard, Barbados, 1881

Description

Shows owner's or manager's house of Andrews plantation in center rear; to right, a windmill base; also figures of women with dung baskets on their heads. In foreground, carter with team of oxen. Though depicting a scene in the post-emancipation period, this image evokes the slave period.

Source

Painting by Lionel Grimston Fewkes (1881), privately owned; from a post card produced by the Barbados Museum.

Creator

Fewkes, Lionel Grimston

Date Created

1880

Language

English

Rights

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

Identifier

NW0003

Spatial Coverage

Caribbean--Barbados

Item sets

Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses

Citation

"Sugar Plantation Mill Yard, Barbados, 1881", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed February 23, 2020, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1470
Shows owner's or manager's house of Andrews plantation in center rear; to right, a windmill base; also figures of women with dung baskets on their heads. In foreground, carter with team of oxen. Though depicting a scene in the post-emancipation period, this image evokes the slave period.
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