Slaves shipping cotton by torch-light - River Alabama / W.H. Brooke F.S.A. ; W. Floyd. – Antique Print
![Slaves shipping cotton by torch-light - River Alabama / W.H. Brooke F.S.A. ; W. Floyd., [published 1842] — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e0/e0eb8969380f-L.webp)
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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Slaves shipping cotton by torch-light - River Alabama / W.H. Brooke F.S.A. ; W. Floyd.. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Slaves shipping cotton by torch-light - River Alabama / W.H. Brooke F.S.A. ; W. Floyd.
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Torches light a night scene on the Alabama River, where enslaved workers load bales of cotton onto a steamboat. The engraving, credited to W. H. Brooke and W. Floyd, appeared in volume one of James Silk Buckingham's *The Slave States of America*, published in 1842. Buckingham, a British traveler and writer, toured the southern states and wrote an account openly critical of slavery. Cotton was the region's leading export, and river steamboats carried it to market, so the picture links the commodity and its transport to the forced labor that made both possible.
| Created / published | [published 1842] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1840-1850.Engravings 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Slave states of America / J[ames] S[ilk] Buckingham, Esq. Paris : Fisher, Son & Co., [1842], vol. 1, oppos. p. 472. (Original plate missing from LC copy as of 2007). |
| Subjects | Cotton industry--Alabama--1840-1850. Steamboats--Alabama--1840-1850. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,284 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-184702 |
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