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Slave houses on Hermitage" plantation Georgia" – Historic Print

Slave houses on Hermitage" plantation Georgia" — historic image
Slave houses on Hermitage" plantation Georgia". Historic image from the Savannah collection.

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A window into the past: Slave houses on Hermitage" plantation Georgia", preserved in this historic image. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Few subjects in this set carry the weight of the row of slave houses at Hermitage Plantation in Georgia, which Walker Evans photographed in February 1935. The plantation, a rice-growing estate near Savannah, was built on labor performed by enslaved people, and these modest dwellings were the quarters where many of them lived. Evans was working in the South for a federal documentary project at the time, and he turned his camera toward the physical traces of slavery that were still standing in the landscape. Looking closely at the plain construction and spacing of the houses shows how the plantation was organized around the labor it depended on.

MediumPH - Evans (W.), no. 38 (A size) [P&P]
Genre[1935 Feb.]
Subjects1 photographic print ; 3 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (9 x 19.4 cm.)
Original scan1,536 × 736 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-130898

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