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.
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