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Negro cloth or Lowell cloth was a coarse and strong cloth used for slaves' clothing in the West Indies and the Southern Colonies. [1] [2] [3] The cloth was imported from Europe (primarily Wales) in the 18th and 19th centuries. [4] [5] The name Lowell cloth came from the town Lowell in Massachusetts, United States, where the cloth was produced. [6]
The Old Plantation is an American folk art watercolor probably painted in the late 18th century on a South Carolina plantation. [3] [4] [5] It is notable for its early date, its credible, non-stereotypical depiction of slaves on the North American mainland, and the fact that the slaves are shown pursuing their own interests.
Women and children slaves, dressed in new clothes, wait to be sold in Richmond, Virginia, in the 19th century. Based on a sketch of 1853. As historian Deborah Gray White explains, "Black in a white society, slave in a free society, woman in a society ruled by men, female slaves had the least formal power and were perhaps the most vulnerable ...
Slaves for Sale, 156 Common St., watercolor and ink by draftsman Pietro Gualdi, 1855 "A Slave Pen at New Orleans—Before the Auction, a Sketch of the Past" (Harper's Weekly, January 24, 1863) View of the Port at New Orleans, circa 1855, etching from Lloyd's Steamboat Directory 1845 map of New Orleans; the trade was ubiquitous throughout the city but especially brisk in the major hotels and ...
The Cotton Pickers is an 1876 oil painting by the American artist Winslow Homer. [1] It depicts two young African-American women in a cotton field.. Stately, silent and with barely a flicker of sadness on their faces, the two black women in the painting are unmistakable in their disillusionment: they picked cotton before the war and they are still picking cotton afterward.
In the 1800s, the Industrial Revolution spread to America, where coal became the main source of energy just as it had years earlier in England.
Ellen Craft was born in 1826 in Clinton, Georgia, to Maria, a mixed-race enslaved woman, and her wealthy planter slaveholder, Major James Smith. At least three-quarters European by ancestry, Ellen was very fair-skinned and resembled her white half-siblings, who were her enslaver's legitimate children.
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