3-057-652 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Digging the cane holes, 1823. Set in a tropical landscape, African slaves plant and till land on a plantation. Cattle are fenced within a pen on the left and a windmill is shown in the distance. From "Ten Views in the Island of Antigua, in which are represented the process of sugar making, and the employment of the negroes ... From drawings made by W Clark, etc" written and illustrated by William Clark. (London, 1823).