Slave Houses on a Rice Plantation, U.S. South, 1859
Description
Captioned Negro Quarters, shows line of slave cabins. The inhabitants [of a rice plantation] make a large community of themselves alone. The mansion of the planter with its numerous out-houses, the residence of the overseer, and the long streets of negro cabins, give to a single settlement the aspect of a large and busy village or town . . . . [slave cabins] are usually placed, at suitable intervals, in rows, or double rows, with a wide street between... (Richards, pp. 730, 732).
Source
Harper's Monthly Magazine (1859), vol. 19, p. 730; accompanies article by T. Addison Richards, "The Rice Lands of the South" (pp. 721-38). (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
NW0097
Spatial Coverage
North America--South Carolina
Citation
"Slave Houses on a Rice Plantation, U.S. South, 1859", 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/1426
![Captioned Negro Quarters, shows line of slave cabins. The inhabitants [of a rice plantation] make a large community of themselves alone. The mansion of the planter with its numerous out-houses, the residence of the overseer, and the long streets of negro cabins, give to a single settlement the aspect of a large and busy village or town . . . . [slave cabins] are usually placed, at suitable intervals, in rows, or double rows, with a wide street between... (Richards, pp. 730, 732).](http://slaveryimages.org/files/large/2bf6bb096ba8a4849c52049eea120d3f9bfad287.jpg)
