Coffee Plantation, Saint Domingue (St. Domingue, Haiti), 1798

Settlements of Mr. As estate in St. Domingo, shows layout of a coffee estate, with each of its major features indicated by a letter. For example, A, the dwelling house & coffee store and L the Negro houses. The proximity of the slave houses to the owner's house reflects the settlement pattern found throughout the West Indies on sugar plantations. This work was written during the brief period that Britain occupied St. Domingue, and its author hoped for the restoration of the pre-revolutionary order.

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Image Title

Coffee Plantation, Saint Domingue (St. Domingue, Haiti), 1798

RegID

SI-OB-465

Date

1798

Title

Coffee Plantation, Saint Domingue (St. Domingue, Haiti), 1798

Source

P. J. Laborie, The coffee planter of Saint Domingo (London, 1798), plate 4. (Copy in Library Company of Philadelphia)

Language

English

Item sets

Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses

Spatial Coverage

Caribbean--St. Domingue

Reproduced In

P. J. Laborie, The coffee planter of Saint Domingo (London, 1798), plate 4.

Researchers

Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May

Identifier

LCP-42