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  • Collection: Bridgens' West India Scenery

Carting canes to the mill

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From the field the canes are immediately carried in carts drawn by mules or oxen to the mill.

Cutting canes

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Weeding the young canes succeeds planting when the cane is about twenty inches in height. Cutting canes, in general, commences in January in which the Negro seizes the cane by the top and cuts off the upper joints to plant for the next crop; he then…

Field Negro, sugar cane in background

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The field negro is represented with the implements employed in the cultivation of the sugar cane. The hoe is used to prepare the holes for the cane cuttings, and afterwards to remove the weeds which might injure the growth of the young plants. The…

Interior of a boiling house

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The interior of a boiling house showing enslaved African men using very long ladles to tend to the sugar being boiled while being supervised by a white overseer. To the left of the room are two trays of processed sugar while to the rear in a…

Negro Dance

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A drawing of a negro dance on a plantation, with the plantation house in the background. It may almost be said that Negro recreation is comprised in the word dancing. Parties to enjoy this favourite amusement are on the larger estates and on grand…

Negro Figuranti

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Depiction of thirteen slave men and women in different dance poses.

Negro mode of nursing

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Drawing of a woman carrying her infant child in one hand while holding a thermos in the other. There are two huts behind her and a few banana and coconut trees in the background.The manner of carrying their children astride on the hip is believed to…

Negro Superstition

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A group of Africans who seem to be engaged in a ritual. There is a dead chicken on a table, fruits are hanging from a beam in the ceiling and one man seems to be choking another who is kneeling in front of him.

No. 1,2,5,6, Negro, 3 and 4 Indian Characters

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Illustration depicting portraits of four Negroes and two Indians. The Negro women at numbers one and six are adorned with headwraps and chains with cross pendants.

Planting sugar canes

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An illustration of enslaved men and women planting sugar cane from Richard Bridgen's book 'West Indian Scenery'. The land is being cleared, the field is formed into beds and, as is termed, round ridged and lined off with a chain for the cane holes,…