Vista de una vega de tabaco ("View of a Tobacco Meadow")

Item

Title

Vista de una vega de tabaco ("View of a Tobacco Meadow")

Creator

Frédéric Mialhe

Contributor

Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Date

c 1851

Description

Lithograph of tobacco fields, enslaved quarters, and horse-mounted overseers similar to those that would have existed on “La Carolina.” First published as Frédéric Mialhe, “Vista de una vega de tabaco,” “Plate XXVII” in Album Pintoresco de la Isla de Cuba (Havana: B. May y Ca., 1851).

Format

Still image

Identifier

http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2185

Rights

Image is in the public domain.

Source

"Vista de una vega de tabaco," Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed August 21, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/2185

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Color image with 2 people on horses in foreground, Black individuals working on farmland, with small house in backgroundVista de una vega de tabaco