In the cotton field – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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In the cotton field comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Numbered 57 in a series of collecting cards, this color lithograph shows enslaved workers in a cotton field, the crop that drove the plantation economy of the American South before the Civil War. It was published in Philadelphia in 1863 under the series title *The Slave in 1863*, the same year the Emancipation Proclamation took effect in areas still in rebellion. Like many prints of its kind, it was made for a Northern market of album collectors, so it shows how the wartime North chose to picture slavery, often through stereotype rather than the workers' own perspective.
| Created / published | c1863. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Collecting cards 1860-1870.Lithographs 1860-1870. |
| Notes | No. 1, no. 57. Copyright by William A. Stephens. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Employment--1860-1870. Slaves--United States--1860-1870. Cotton plantations--United States--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,136 × 1,456 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216629 |
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