This engraving shows several slave houses with chimneys and small group of people dancing in front in Louisiana. Harper's Magazine (also called Harper's) is a monthly magazine of literature, politics, culture, finance and the arts.
Negro Quarters
SI-OB-470
1853
Negro Quarters
Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1853), vol. 9, p. 753. Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library.
English
Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses
North America--Louisiana
Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1853), vol. 9, p. 753.
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
HW9-753