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