This engraving depicts a group of enslaved men boiling sugar in Louisiana, while a woman held an infant near several children playing. Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance and the arts.

Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1853), vol. 9, p. 765. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)

English

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HW9-765

North America--Louisiana

"Interior of Sugar House", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed April 14, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1081