Sugar Cane Worker, Cuba, 1853

Merely captioned A Field Negro, this sketch accompanies an article, Three Weeks in Cuba, by an artist (pp. 161-175). Descriptions of the island's black population are racist and ethnocentric, the illustration here depicts that men work naked in the fields, except coarse linen pantaloons . . . . The whole race in Cuba are less intellectual in appearance than those of the United States where the African blood has a large portion of European alloy (p. 169).

Image Title

Sugar Cane Worker, Cuba, 1853

RegID

SI-OB-1196

Date

1853

Title

Sugar Cane Worker, Cuba, 1853

Source

Harper's New Monthly Magazine (January 1853), vol. 6, p. 169. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)

Language

English

Item sets

Portraits & Illustrations of Individuals

Spatial Coverage

Caribbean--Cuba

Reproduced In

Harper's New Monthly Magazine (January 1853), vol. 6, p. 169.

Researchers

Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May

Identifier

pg169