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plantation "corn-shucking" -- social meeting of slaves
Helmick, Howard
designer
still image
Graphic
Photomechanical prints -- 1890-1900
Book illustrations -- 1890-1900
ctu
Hartford
CONN. Hartford
s.n
[1897]
1897
monographic
eng
1 print: photomechanical print; image 10 x 16 cm. (4 x 6.5 in)
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.
H. Helmick.
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."
Plantation life
Virginia
Slaves
Social life and customs
Virginia
Corn husking
Virginia
29518.O
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare
Am 1897 Liv 29518.O p 336
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/Islandora%3A2840
Story of my life
Livermore, Mary Ashton Rice, 1820-1905
Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co., 1897
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ppl
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