Details
Creator Whitney & Annin engraver.
Contributor Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822-1888 artist.
Title Chorus -- sing, darkeys, sing [graphic] / Whitney-Annin sc. ; Darley
Publisher [New York: s.n]
Date [1852]
Physical Description 1 print: wood engraving; image 10 x 14 cm. (3.75 x 5.5 in)
Description Pro-slavery image set on Fairfield Plantation, a fictional plantation near Macon, Georgia. This scene of casual socializing shows a large "corn-shucking" or husking. A group of men, women, and childen sit around a large pile of corn husks. Laughing and talking with one another, they husk the corn and toss the ears aside. A man identified in the text as Uncle Cato sits on top of pile and leads the others in singing. Two white overseers, who, according to the text, provided the slaves with whiskey, stand near a tree in the background.
Is part of Criswell, Robert. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" contrasted with Buckingham Hall. New York: Printed and published by D. Fanshaw, No. 108 Nassau-street, 1852.
Notes Illustration in Robert Criswell's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" contrasted with Buckingham Hall, the planter's home; or, A fair view of both sides of the slavery question (New York: Printed and published by D. Fanshaw, No. 108 Nassau-street, 1852), p. 64.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Subject Plantations -- Georgia.
Slaves -- Social life and customs -- Georgia.
Slaves -- Music.
Corn husking -- Georgia.
Fictitious characters.
Genre Wood engravings -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | 2 Wright 660 71441.O p 64
Accession number 71441.O