Barbers, Norfolk, Virginia, 1797
Description
Pencil and ink watercolor; caption, preparations for the enjoyment of a fine Sunday among the blacks of Norfolk.
Source
Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Sketchbook, Maryland Historical Society, Baltimore. Published in E.D.C. Campbell and K.S. Rice, eds., Before Freedom Came: African-American Life in the Antebellum South (Univ. Press of Virginia, 1991), plate 18, p. 71, and James Oliver Horton & Lois E. Horton, A History of the African American People (Wayne State University Press, 1997), p. 22.
Creator
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
NW0132
Spatial Coverage
North America--Virginia
Citation
"Barbers, Norfolk, Virginia, 1797", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed April 13, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/954