This watercolour shows plantation sugar fields with slaves in the center cutting and loading the cane onto ox-carts for transport to the sugar mill. William Berryman was an English artist who lived in Jamaica for eight years between 1808 and 1816. He produced about 300 pencil drawings and watercolour of people, landscape, settlements, and flora in the island's southern parishes and the general region surrounding Kingston. Several other Berryman works are reproduced in T. Barringer, G. Forrester, B. Martinez-Ruiz, et al., Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (New Haven: Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007).

Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-4988.

Berryman, William

English

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Caribbean--Jamaica

"Untitled Image (Cutting Sugar Cane)", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed December 1, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2403