Enslaved House Servants and White Children, South Carolina, 1863
Description
Caption, Domestic Life in South Carolina--from a sketch by our special artist. This illustration (which also shows the white children playing with a black child), the ILN article reports, represents the old Negro servants of the planter's family among his children . . . . The children of the [white] family grow up among the Negro domestic servants, and often learn to regard them with as much affection as they show their own parents (p. 552).
Source
The Illustrated London News (May 23, 1863), vol. 42, p. 552.
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
ILN552
Spatial Coverage
North America--South Carolina
Item sets
Citation
"Enslaved House Servants and White Children, South Carolina, 1863", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed March 20, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2739
![Caption, Domestic Life in South Carolina--from a sketch by our special artist. This illustration (which also shows the white children playing with a black child), the ILN article reports, represents the old Negro servants of the planter's family among his children . . . . The children of the [white] family grow up among the Negro domestic servants, and often learn to regard them with as much affection as they show their own parents (p. 552).](http://www.slaveryimages.org/files/large/50c44fbff6bb0a12f3ef4b6ba3d378e1c7c04237.jpg)
