Details
Title [Processing tobacco] [graphic].
Publisher [Paris s.n]
Publisher FRANCE. Paris. 1722
Date [1722]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; image 13 x 14 cm. (5 x 5.5 in)
Description Engraving shows four slaves at work in a tobacco house. In the lower right-hand corner, a female slave sits on the ground and strips (?) tobacco. Behind her, another slave twists tobacco, while a third slave (to the left) puts it on a roll. Drying tobacco leaves hang upside down from the house's rafters. In the background, a woman and a child work hanging leaves.
Is part of Laban, Jean Baptiste, 1663-1738. Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique. Paris: rue S. Jacques, chez Pierre-François Giffart, prés la ruë des Mathurins, à l'image Sainte Therese, M.DCC.XXII [1722].
Notes Fold-out plate in Jean Baptiste Laban's Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique (A Paris: rue S. Jacques, chez Pierre-François Giffart, prés la ruë Mathurins, à l'image Sainte Therese, M.DCC.XXII [1722]), vol. 4, p. 496.
The key in the upper left-hand corner reads: 1. Negre qui ejambe le tabac. 2. Negre qui torque le tabac. 3. Negre qui le met en rolle. 4. Tabac a la pente.
Fels Afro-Americana Image Project, Work Scenes.
Subject Tobacco plantation.
Tobacco workers.
Slave labor.
Genre Engravings -- 1720-1730.
Book illustrations -- 1720-1730.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Books & Other Texts | Rare | Am 1722 Lab 62402.D v 4 p 496
Accession number 62402.D