Untitled Image (Transporting Sugar Hogsheads by Boat)
From the Caribbean island of St. Vincent, the picture shows a small boat with a six-man crew, loading a large hogshead of sugar. Dating from the post-emancipation period, but evoking similar scenes of the later slave period (and well into the twentieth century). Author viewed this scene in early 1847, on a visit to a small village in St. Vincent which had a small wooden pier used for shipping sugar. Day wrote how "the drogher, a schooner generally about forty-five tons. . . conveys the sugar from the estates to the ship in which it is exported, lies at anchor a few hundred yards from the shore. . . The boats called moses-boats, which convey the hogshead from the shore to the drogher, are tremendously strong. . . They are manned by Negroes and Carib Indians, and the very launching of such a heavy boat through such a surf is a sight to be remembered" (pp. 94-95).
Image Title
Untitled Image (Transporting Sugar Hogsheads by Boat)
RegID
SI-OB-202
Date
1847
Title
Untitled Image (Transporting Sugar Hogsheads by Boat)
Source
Charles William Day, Five year's residence in the West Indies (London, 1852), vol. 1, p. 95.
Language
English
Item sets
Miscellaneous Occupations & Economic Activities
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--St. Vincent
Reproduced In
Charles William Day, Five year's residence in the West Indies (London, 1852), vol. 1, p. 95.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
27-Dec-12
Identifier
Day1