Details
Creator Felch-Riches, engraver.
Title Plantation scene -- coffee [graphic] / Felch-Riches. Columbus. O.
Publisher [Columbus: s.n]
Publisher OH. Columbus. 1858
Date [1858]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 12 x 19 cm. (4.5 x 7.5 in)
Description Illustration is set on a coffee plantation in either South American or the West Indies. Sitting in the shade of a palm tree, a planter watches several slaves at work. To the right, two women and a child pick coffee beans and place them in baskets. In the middle, three women carry full baskets up an incline and dump the beans on the ground. Two men rake and shovel them.
Is part of History of slavery and the slave trade. Columbus: Published and sold exclusively by subscription J. & H. Miller, 1858.
Notes Plate in William Blake's The History of Slavery and the Slave Trade, Ancient and Modern (Columbus, Ohio: Published and sold exclusively by subscription J. & H. Miller, 1858), p. 288.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Subject Coffee plantations.
Slaves.
Genre Engravings -- 1850-1860.
Book illustrations -- 1850-1860.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1858 Blake 70419.O p 288
Accession number 70419.O