Slave Quarters, Sugar Plantation, Martinique, 1826
Description
Caption, Case de Negres (cabin/hut of blacks); thatched roofs are made from cane leaves (paille de canne). The author briefly describes life in the slave quarters when the enslaved are not at work; each household/family has its own dwelling, furnished according to the wealth of the inhabitants; also comments on the gardens, small livestock and poultry, and house construction etc. (pp. 25-26).
Source
Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny, Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Amèriques...(Paris, 1836), facing p. 19, fig. 1. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)"
Language
French
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
NW0309
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--Martinique
Item sets
Citation
"Slave Quarters, Sugar Plantation, Martinique, 1826", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed January 23, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/386