Interior of the Seabrook Tobacco Warehouse at Richmond, Virginia

Description

This engraving shows a number of men loading tobacco into barrels in a large warehouse in Richmond, Virginia. The Seabrook warehouse had about twenty-one laborers, all black, at a time when Virginia was the leading producer of tobacco in the United States. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City and published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916. It featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects and humor, alongside illustrations. It covered the American Civil War extensively, including many illustrations of events from the war.

Source

Anonymous, "The Tobacco Market at Richmond," Harper's Weekly, vol. 9 (11 Nov., 1865), p. 709.

Language

English

Rights

Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International; public domain

Identifier

HW09_709

Spatial Coverage

North America--Virginia

Item sets

Miscellaneous Occupations & Economic Activities

Citation

"Interior of the Seabrook Tobacco Warehouse at Richmond, Virginia", 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/2988
This engraving shows a number of men loading tobacco into barrels in a large warehouse in Richmond, Virginia. The Seabrook warehouse had about twenty-one laborers, all black, at a time when Virginia was the leading producer of tobacco in the United States. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City and published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916. It featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects and humor, alongside illustrations. It covered the American Civil War extensively, including many illustrations of events from the war.
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