Hoeing and Planting Cotton Seeds, South Carolina, 1880

Description

Although published after the Civil War, this scene could have been witnessed during the later antebellum period. The illustration accompanies a long descriptive article on cotton production, Cotton, in the Coast and Upland Fields of South Carolina, by Jennie Haskell (pp. 567-574).

Source

Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly (1880), vol. 9, p. 564 (top).

Language

English

Rights

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

Identifier

Leslie01

Spatial Coverage

North America--South Carolina

Item sets

New World Agriculture & Plantation Labor

Citation

"Hoeing and Planting Cotton Seeds, South Carolina, 1880", 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/3108

Although published after the Civil War, this scene could have been witnessed during the later antebellum period. The illustration accompanies a long descriptive article on cotton production, Cotton, in the Coast and Upland Fields of South Carolina, by Jennie Haskell (pp. 567-574).