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Sugar Cane

Date ca. 1875-1880
Dimensions Image (size of each image): 3 5/8 x 3 1/8 in. (9.2 x 7.9 cm)
Paper: 3 5/8 x 6 1/4 in. (9.2 x 15.9 cm)
Mount: 4 x 7 in. (10.2 x 17.8 cm)
Print medium Photo-Albumen silver-Stereograph

In addition to cotton and rice, sugar cane was one of the staples of the Southern economy throughout the nineteenth century. All of these crops relied on the labor of enslaved Africans, then, after emancipation, black laborers. James Palmer, a native of Ireland, opened a photography studio in Aiken, South Carolina, in 1871, and worked there through the 1890s. This stereograph of black workers harvesting sugar cane was No. 588 in his "Characteristic Southern Scenes" series, which also featured images of African American cotton and rice workers.

Credit line

Gift of Daniel Cowin, 1990

Feedback Accession No. 511.1990