Sugar Plantation and Slave Settlement, St. John, Virgin Islands, 1833

Watercolor by F. V. Schulten shows Carolina Estate in Coral Bay, with its windmill and other buildings, including slave houses (center). White building cut off at the right is the Moravian mission station in Coral Bay; adjacent to it are the slave houses.

Image Title

Sugar Plantation and Slave Settlement, St. John, Virgin Islands, 1833

RegID

SI-OB-495

Date

1833

Title

Sugar Plantation and Slave Settlement, St. John, Virgin Islands, 1833

Source

Original painting in Kronborg Castle, Elsinore, Denmark (slide, courtesy of Karen Fog Olwig;)

Language

English

Item sets

Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses

Spatial Coverage

Caribbean--St. John

Researchers

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

Identifier

NW0089