Drawing in pen, ink, and watercolor, titled An Overseer Doing his Duty. A white overseer supervises two enslaved females working in a tobacco field with long-handled hoes. This scene was sketched from life near Fredericksburg, 13 March 1798.

Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Sketchbook, III, 33, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore.

Latrobe, Benjamin Henry

French

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NW0048

North America--Virginia

"Cultivating Tobacco, Virginia, 1798", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed September 30, 2023, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1181