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Cabins where slaves were raised for market--The famous Hermitage Savannah Georgia – Antique Print

Cabins where slaves were raised for market--The famous Hermitage Savannah Georgia, 1903 — historic photograph
Cabins where slaves were raised for market--The famous Hermitage Savannah Georgia, 1903. Historic photograph from the Savannah collection.

(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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Cabins where slaves were raised for market--The famous Hermitage Savannah Georgia comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Few places near Savannah drew as much attention from photographers around 1900 as the Hermitage, a former rice plantation on the Savannah River. This stereograph shows the slave quarters, the small cabins where enslaved people lived and worked on the estate before emancipation in 1865. The printed title, which describes the cabins as where people were "raised for market," reflects how such views were marketed to tourists, who were often invited to romanticize plantation life and overlook the brutality of slavery. Stereo cards like this one were copyrighted and sold in quantity, so the image reveals as much about the appetite for nostalgic Southern scenes as about the buildings themselves.

Created / published1903
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
NotesH29775 U.S. Copyright Office. · Carson Marian S. collector.
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Structures--Georgia--Savannah--1900-1910. Slave quarters--Georgia--Savannah--1900-1910. Slavery--Georgia--Savannah--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,326 × 4,608 px · prints to 14 × 15 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-STV-268045

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