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.

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

English

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NW0077

North America--Georgia--Savannah

"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 January 23, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1106