Plantation Scene a Negro Hut
This image shows a wood-shingled log cabin with a woman outside washing clothes in a tub, while children played and a man carried goods on his head. Although post-emancipation, this scene evokes the late slave period. Charles Carleton Coffin (1823-1896) was one of the most well-known newspaper correspondents of the American Civil War. Long was loyal to the Union and opposed slavery.
Image Title
Plantation Scene a Negro Hut
RegID
SI-OB-471
Date
1880s
Title
Plantation Scene a Negro Hut
Source
Charles C. Coffin, Building the Nation (New York, 1883), p. 420.
Language
English
Item sets
Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses
Spatial Coverage
North America
Reproduced In
Charles C. Coffin, Building the Nation (New York, 1883), p. 420.
Researchers
Jerome Handler; Michael Tuite; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
COFFIN