Sugar Plantation, St. Croix, Danish West Indies, ca. 1840

Constitution Hill plantation by Frederick von Scholten showing windmill and sugar works; slave houses on hill above the plantation yard; pond in foreground. (Thanks to Leif Svalesen and George Tyson for assistance in identifying this item.)

Image Title

Sugar Plantation, St. Croix, Danish West Indies, ca. 1840

RegID

SI-OB-504

Date

1840

Title

Sugar Plantation, St. Croix, Danish West Indies, ca. 1840

Source

Published in Leif Svalesen, The Slave Ship Fredensborg, translated by Pat Shaw and Selena Winsnes (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle publishers, 2000), p. 203; original in The Danish Maritime Museum, Kronborg, Denmark.

Language

Danish

Item sets

Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses

Spatial Coverage

Caribbean--St. Croix

Reproduced In

Leif Svalesen, The Slave Ship Fredensborg, translated by Pat Shaw and Selena Winsnes (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle publishers, 2000), p. 203

Researchers

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

Identifier

NW0041