Plantation Slaves, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862
The Prints and Photograph Division of the Library of Congress has two slightly different negatives of this scene by Timothy H. O'Sullivan, the Civl War photographer. Sullivan visited Smith's plantation in 1862 and made several photographs of its enslaved population. In general he left no records of his experiences and photographs, and the only identifiers are to be found on the notes or captions he scribbled on his negatives; in this particular case, on the negative sleeve O'Sullivan wrote group on J.J. Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, S.C. For details on O'Sullivan and his photographs, see James Horan, Timothy O'Sullivan: America's Forgotten Photographer (New York, 1966) and Joel Snyder, American Frontiers: The Photographs of Timothy H. O'Sullivan (New York, 1981). See also image NW0243 on this website.
Image Title
Plantation Slaves, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862
RegID
SI-OB-463
Date
1862
Title
Plantation Slaves, Beaufort, South Carolina, 1862
Source
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (LC-B811-151)
Language
English
Item sets
Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses
Spatial Coverage
North America--South Carolina
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
LOC-SC-1