Details
Contributor Franklin.
Title Must have their baskets full [graphic] / Franklin del ; Marley (?) sc.
Publisher [New York: s.n]
Publisher NY. New York. 1883
Date [1883]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 13 x 11 cm. (5 x 4.25 in)
Description Illustration included in Chapter XXVII, "Compromise of 1850." Set on a plantation, it shows two slaves, a man and a woman, at work in a cotton-field. Woman balances a basket of cotton on her head, while the man carries his on his shoulders. Image relates to the following description of slave life: "From the auction-room they went to the plantation to work in the cotton-fields, beneath the broiling sun, driven by a brutal overseer sitting on a horse, with a whip in his hand, which he delighted to crack over them, or to bring down upon the back of any one that lagged. The weak and feeble must keep up with the strong in wielding the heavy hoe. When the fields were snow-white with the bursting bolls they must perform their allotted tasks in picking; the baskets must be full and running over: the number of pounds specified for a day's work to be tipped by the steel-yards, or in default they would be flogged." (p. 387)
Is part of Coffin, Charles Carleton, 1823-1896. Building the nation. New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1883.
Notes Engraving in Charles Coffin's Building the Nation: Events in the History of the United States from the Revolution to the Beginning of the War between the States (New York: Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square, 1883), p. 388.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Subject Plantation life -- Southern States.
Cotton picking.
Slaves -- Economic & social conditions -- Southern States.
Genre Engravings -- 1880-1890.
Book illustrations -- 1880-1890.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1883 Cof 23709.O p 388
Accession number 23709.O