Roehamton [Roehampton] Plantation and Slave Village, Jamaica, 1832
Caption: The Destruction of Roehamton Estate in the Parish of St. James in January 1832. Shows fire in the mill yard and the slave village. This lithograph by Adolphe Duperly is closely based on an aquatint that was done by James Hakewill. The plantation was burned during the slave rebellion of 1832. Discussed in T. Barringer, G. Forrester, and B. Martinez-Ruiz, Art and Emancipation in Jamaica: Isaac Mendes Belisario and his Worlds (New Haven : Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press, 2007), p. 355. Compare with image NW0095.
Image Title
Roehamton [Roehampton] Plantation and Slave Village, Jamaica, 1832
RegID
SI-OB-498
Date
1832
Title
Roehamton [Roehampton] Plantation and Slave Village, Jamaica, 1832
Source
Original located in the National Library of Jamaica; published in Barry W. Higman, Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Institute of Jamaica Publications Ltd., 1988), fig. 8.44, p. 251.
Language
English
Item sets
Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean--Jamaica
Reproduced In
Barry W. Higman, Jamaica Surveyed: Plantation Maps and Plans of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Institute of Jamaica Publications Ltd., 1988), fig. 8.44, p. 251
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Last Updated
11-Aug-11
Identifier
NW0087