Slave Houses on a Rice Plantation, U.S. South, 1859
Captioned Negro Quarters, shows line of slave cabins. The inhabitants [of a rice plantation] make a large community of themselves alone. The mansion of the planter with its numerous out-houses, the residence of the overseer, and the long streets of negro cabins, give to a single settlement the aspect of a large and busy village or town . . . . [slave cabins] are usually placed, at suitable intervals, in rows, or double rows, with a wide street between... (Richards, pp. 730, 732).
Image Title
Slave Houses on a Rice Plantation, U.S. South, 1859
RegID
SI-OB-489
Date
1859
Title
Slave Houses on a Rice Plantation, U.S. South, 1859
Source
Harper's Monthly Magazine (1859), vol. 19, p. 730; accompanies article by T. Addison Richards, "The Rice Lands of the South" (pp. 721-38). (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)"
Language
English
Item sets
Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses
Spatial Coverage
North America--South Carolina
Reproduced In
Harper's Monthly Magazine (1859), vol. 19, p. 730
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
NW0097