Rice Production on a Plantation near Savannah, Georgia, 1867

Description

Shows, clockwise from upper left: threshing mill; main flood gates; reaping; the rice flooded; the rice bird; flood gate; ditching. Center, a rice field. An accompanying article, Sketches on a Rice Plantation (pp. 5-6) describes the illustration.

Source

Harper's Weekly (Jan. 5, 1867), p. 8.

Language

English

Rights

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

Identifier

NW0077

Spatial Coverage

North America--Georgia--Savannah

Item sets

New World Agriculture & Plantation Labor

Citation

"Rice Production on a Plantation near Savannah, Georgia, 1867", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed September 27, 2022, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1106

Shows, clockwise from upper left: threshing mill; main flood gates; reaping; the rice flooded; the rice bird; flood gate; ditching. Center, a rice field. An accompanying article, Sketches on a Rice Plantation (pp. 5-6) describes the illustration.