Details
Creator Helmick, Howard, designer.
Title A plantation "corn-shucking" -- social meeting of slaves [graphic] / H. Helmick.
Publisher [Hartford: s.n]
Publisher CONN. Hartford. 1897
Date [1897]
Physical Description 1 print: photomechanical print; image 10 x 16 cm. (4 x 6.5 in)
Description Illustration is included in Chapter XIX, "The Slave-Trader's Purchase -- A Slave Gang Bound for the South -- Distressing Scenes at Parting -- 'We'll Shuck dis Cawn Befo' We Go!'" Image shows a large, festive, night-time corn-shucking in which slaves from several neighboring plantations were said to have participated. Sitting and standing around an enormous pile of husks, the slaves strip the ears of corn and throw them into buckets. According to the text, the slaves sang while they worked, and some tried to outdo each other in husking contests.
Is part of Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905. Story of my life. Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1897.
Notes Illustration in Mary Ashton Rice Livermore's The Story of my Life, or, The Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years (Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1897), p. 336.
Caption underneath the image reads: "Costumed in every variety of nondescript gaments, with faces of every shade of black, as diverse in aspect as were their garments in fashion, they seated themselves in groups around the mounds of unhusked corn."
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Scenes from Slave Life.
Subject Plantation life -- Virginia.
Slaves -- Social life and customs -- Virginia.
Corn husking -- Virginia.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- 1890-1900.
Book illustrations -- 1890-1900.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1897 Liv 29518.O p 336
Accession number 29518.O