Husking Corn

Description

This image depicts a group of enslaved men singing while husking corn at a big table at an unspecified place in the U.S. South. Note the fiddle player in the upper right. This image shows an enslaved man dancing in front of a crowd at an unidentified place in the U.S. South. On the left, a man plays a banjo. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City and published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916. It featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects and humor, alongside illustrations. It covered the American Civil War extensively, including many illustrations of events from the war.

Source

Harper's Weekly (April 13, 1861), p.232.

Language

English

Rights

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

Identifier

HW0009

Spatial Coverage

North America

Item sets

New World Agriculture & Plantation Labor

Citation

"Husking Corn", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed October 2, 2023, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1120
This image depicts a group of enslaved men singing while husking corn at a big table at an unspecified place in the U.S. South. Note the fiddle player in the upper right. This image shows an enslaved man dancing in front of a crowd at an unidentified place in the U.S. South. On the left, a man plays a banjo. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City and published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916. It featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects and humor, alongside illustrations. It covered the American Civil War extensively, including many illustrations of events from the war.
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