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

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.)

Image Title

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

RegID

SI-OB-505

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. 196; 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. 196

Researchers

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

Identifier

NW0040