Cultural Landscape of Plantation--SLAVE SKILLS AND TALENTS Notes

The Cultural Landscape of the Plantation: NOTES AND FURTHER READING

SLAVE SKILLS AND TALENTS Notes

SLAVE SKILLS AND TALENTS

Former slave from coastal Georgia making a fishing net
Photographer unknown, early twentieth century
Georgia Historical Society (19.1)

Richard Toler, former slave from Campbell County, Virginia
Photograph possibly by Ruth Thompson, ca. 1938
Ex-slave Narrative Collection
Manuscript Division (20.1)

Blacksmith shop at Hampton plantation
Baltimore County, Maryland
Photograph by Lanny Miyamoto, 1959
Historic American Buildings Survey Collection
Prints and Photographs Division (20.2)

Henry Williams, former slave from Camden County, Georgia
Photograph by Muriel and Malcolm Bell, ca. 1939
Collection of Muriel and Malcolm Bell (20.3)

Weaving house at the Borough House
Sumter County, South Carolina
Photograph by Jack E. Boucher, 1960
Historic American Buildings Survey Collection
Prints and Photographs Division (21.1)

Lucindy Jurdon, former slave from Georgia
Photograph possibly by Preston Klein and Jack Kytle,ca. 1938
Ex-slave Narrative Collection
Manuscript Division (21.2)

Unknown banjo player from near Savannah, Georgia
Photograph by Victor C. Schreck, 1902
Specific Subject File-- Negroes, dance and music
Prints and Photographs Division (21.3)

Interior of a slave cabin near Spotsylvania court House, Virginia
Reproduction of a drawing by Edwin Forbes, May 14,1864
Civil War Drawings Collection
Prints and Photographs Division (21.4)

Katie Brown, former slave on Sapelo Island, Georgia
Photograph by Muriel and Malcolm Bell, ca. 1939:
Collection of Muriel and Malcolm Bell (21.6)

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