Hauling Cotton Bales, U.S. South, 1850s
Description
Carter with loaded ox cart taking bales of cotton to river port. Illustrates article (pp. 447 ff.) cotton and its cultivation, by T.B. Thorpe of Louisiana.
Source
Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1853-54), vol. 8, p. 460. (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
NW0076
Spatial Coverage
North America--Louisiana
Item sets
Citation
"Hauling Cotton Bales, U.S. South, 1850s", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed January 18, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1171