Church Service at Plantation, South Carolina, 1863

Description

A slave preaching to a congregation of slaves and the plantation owner and his family. The preacher was a house slave who could read but not write. This illustration is from a sketch made in a rude chapel erected for the slaves on this cotton plantation, near Port Royal, South Carolina. The Methodist persuasion is the one which finds most favour among the slaves in the Southern as well as among the free Negroes in the Northern States ( p. 574).

Source

The Illustrated London News (Dec. 5, 1863), vol. 43, p. 561.

Language

English

Rights

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

Identifier

NW0176

Spatial Coverage

North America--South Carolina

Item sets

Religion & Mortuary Practices

Citation

"Church Service at Plantation, South Carolina, 1863", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed June 6, 2023, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1853
A slave preaching to a congregation of slaves and the plantation owner and his family. The preacher was a house slave who could read but not write. This illustration is from a sketch made in a rude chapel erected for the slaves on this cotton plantation, near Port Royal, South Carolina. The Methodist persuasion is the one which finds most favour among the slaves in the Southern as well as among the free Negroes in the Northern States ( p. 574).
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