Rural Settlement and Houses, Cuba, 1853

Description

The sketch of Laz Pozas accompanies an article, Three Weeks in Cuba, by an artist (pp. 161-175). Shows house types and village layout. Laz Pozas, the author writes, is a charmingly-situated village . . . Beyond it are vast forests . . . [which] afford secure retreats for runaway negroes... (p. 175)

Source

Harper's New Monthly Magazine (January 1853), vol. 6, p. 174. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)

Language

English

Rights

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

Identifier

pg174

Spatial Coverage

Caribbean--Cuba

Citation

"Rural Settlement and Houses, Cuba, 1853", 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/3119
The sketch of Laz Pozas accompanies an article, Three Weeks in Cuba, by an artist (pp. 161-175). Shows house types and village layout. Laz Pozas, the author writes, is a charmingly-situated village . . . Beyond it are vast forests . . . [which] afford secure retreats for runaway negroes... (p. 175)
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