Sugar Plantation, Antigua, West Indies, 1801

A water color by Nicholas Pocock showing Green Castle Estate. In the foreground are slave houses, several figures (including a woman with a pottery jar on her head); background shows plantation house on top of hill, slave houses on hillside, two windmills and other buildings. (slide of painting, courtesy of Ralph Stetson)

Image Title

Sugar Plantation, Antigua, West Indies, 1801

RegID

SI-OB-496

Date

1801

Title

Sugar Plantation, Antigua, West Indies, 1801

Source

Original in Beinecke Lesser Antilles Collection, Hamilton College Library (Clinton, NY).

Language

English

Item sets

Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses

Spatial Coverage

Caribbean--Antigua

Researchers

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

Identifier

NW0090