Sunday Morning in the Country (2)

Sunday Morning in the Country (2)

An illustration of a man and woman conversing in the country on a Sunday morning. The man is holding a tattered umbrella, is barefooted and holding a pair of shoes in his hands. The woman has a wooden carton with various animals and produce on her head. The markets in the West Indies are supplied almost entirely by the Negroes of the surrounding country. As their absence from the estates on week-days would have been a great loss of work to their masters, they had been allowed to acquire a kind of prescriptive right to the Sunday morning for that purpose. Early on that day, the roads leading into the chief towns are used to be crowded with Negroes, chiefly women, bringing to market the stock and produce of their provision-grounds.

Country life; Men; Women; Umbrellas; Animals; Farm produce

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