Slave House and Cooking, Guadeloupe, French West Indies, late 1840s
Captioned, Paysage a la Guadeloupe, this engraving is based on a drawing by Karl Girardet. Shown is a rural scene, with two wood houses (wattle and daub ?) with thatched roofs in the background and two blacks cooking in an iron (?) pot over an open fire in the foreground; a white onlooker is on the right. The illustration accompanies a brief article on the history of slavery in the French West Indies which ended in 1848 (pp. 194-195).
Image Title
Slave House and Cooking, Guadeloupe, French West Indies, late 1840s
RegID
SI-OB-457
Date
1840-850
Title
Slave House and Cooking, Guadeloupe, French West Indies, late 1840s
Source
Le Magasin Pittoresque (1851), p. 195
Language
French
Item sets
Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--Guadaloupe
Reproduced In
Le Magasin Pittoresque (1851), p. 195
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
18-Jun-09
Identifier
Magasin5