Extremely Rare Sepia Tone Photo On Canvas Of Slaves On SC Rice Plantation 1806

Brown Sepia Tone picture on canvas Frame 18 X 22 dated 2nd Day July 1806 as written in the late 1700's to early 1800's. Extremely Rare Photo Of Slaves Threshing rice on a Charleston SC Rice Plantation. Pre civil War picture showing Slave women Threshing rice in a field. One of the oldest photos taken in America. A true must have for pictorial / Ethic history collectors. A significant crop produced in colonial South Carolina was rice. The production of this crop required its workers to possess knowledge of the land and rice cultivation, as well a sufficient labor force able to maintain it.

Due to the omission of this crop in their European culture, English colonists who settled the rich North American land lacked the expertise required for the production of rice. Thus, the huge task of cultivating, processing, and packaging rice on South Carolina Plantations was commonly assigned to slaves. This task, though foreign to European colonists, proved to be quite common to the slaves who had been purposely imported from the rice growing region of West Africa.

Where many English planters had failed in their previous attempts at growing and processing rice, the knowledge and rice-growing skills possessed by West Africans gave them a newfound success at cultivating the crop. In addition to being knowledgeable about the process of cultivating rice, West African peoples also had the advantage of being able to easily adapt to the moist Carolina climate and landscape.

This was primarily the case because the southeastern land very much resembled that of their African homeland (Wood 1974, 117). The combination of all these things made West African slaves one of the most valuable assets on South Carolina rice plantations, giving them a major role in the successful production and preparation of ric. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Cultures & Ethnicities\Black Americana\Photos". The seller is "hyhosilver" and is located in this country: US.

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