Woman Carrying Bundle, Savannah, Georgia, 1873-74
Description
The woman is descending a staircase by the levee in Savannah; she carries a bundle on her head, a ubiquitous form of burden carrying throughout African America from the earliest times. It is not specified if the woman was a domestic servant. Original sketch made by J. Wells Chamney who accompanied the author during 1873 and the spring and summer of 1874.
Source
Edward King, The Great South (Hartford, Conn., 1875), p. 364 (Special Collections, University of Virginia Library)
Creator
Chamney, J. Wells
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
King03
Spatial Coverage
North America--Georgia--Savannah
Item sets
Citation
" Woman Carrying Bundle, Savannah, Georgia, 1873-74", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed February 5, 2023, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2894