View of the La Grange plantation by Frederick von Scholten with town of Frederiksted in background. Slave gang in foreground is harvesting field of sugar cane; left center are sugar works, windmill, and plantation yard. (Thanks to Leif Svalesen and George Tyson for assistance in identifying this item.)
Sugar Plantation, St. Croix, Danish West Indies, ca. 1840
SI-OB-505
1840
Sugar Plantation, St. Croix, Danish West Indies, ca. 1840
Published in Leif Svalesen, The Slave Ship Fredensborg, translated by Pat Shaw and Selena Winsnes (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle publishers, 2000), p. 196; original in The Danish Maritime Museum, Kronborg, Denmark.
Danish
Plantation Scenes, Slave Settlements & Houses
Caribbean--St. Croix
Leif Svalesen, The Slave Ship Fredensborg, translated by Pat Shaw and Selena Winsnes (Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle publishers, 2000), p. 196
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
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