Coffee Sorters, Cuba, ca. 1866
Describing this scene, the author, who visited Cuba ca. 1866, writes Great care is used in sorting so as to secure the best of coffee, free from dirt, pebbles, andThe author visited Cuba ca. 1866. decayed berries. This is done by the Negro women. . . . They are arranged on two sides of a long table, in a well-lighted room . . . . twenty or thirty of these women . . . picking away from the great piles of beans before them, and filling huge baskets with the bright green grain, keeping up all the time a monotonous chanting, in which each one takes a part (p. 488).
Image Title
Coffee Sorters, Cuba, ca. 1866
RegID
SI-OB-223
Date
1866
Title
Coffee Sorters, Cuba, ca. 1866
Source
Samuel Hazard, Cuba with pen and pencil (Hartford, Conn., 1871), p. 488.
Language
English
Item sets
Miscellaneous Occupations & Economic Activities
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--Cuba
Reproduced In
Samuel Hazard, Cuba with pen and pencil (Hartford, Conn., 1871), p. 488.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
4-May-12
Identifier
LCP-02