Hauling the Seine
Description
This scene illustrates the fisheries of Albermarle and Pimlico sounds in North Carolina, which were known to employ a considerable number of emancipated people from neighboring counties. The huge seines could measure up to two miles in length. Harper's Weekly: A Journal of Civilization was an American political magazine based in New York City and published by Harper & Brothers from 1857 until 1916. It featured foreign and domestic news, fiction, essays on many subjects and humor, alongside illustrations. It covered the American Civil War extensively, including many illustrations of events from the war.
Source
Harper's Weekly (Sept. 28, 1861), p. 620.
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
HW0012
Spatial Coverage
North America--North Carolina
Citation
"Hauling the Seine", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed April 12, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/934