Slaves working in the tobacco sheds on a plantation

ID: 6205 ~ Source: WikiCommons ~ Date: 1670

This file appears in: The Forty Artisans of the Boré Plantation

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"This 1670 painting shows enslaved Africans working in the tobacco sheds on a colonial tobacco plantation."

Shows the varied work of enslaved people within rural enslavement.

This file appears in: The Forty Artisans of the Boré Plantation

The Forty Artisans of the Boré Plantation

By Kalie A. Dutra & Kathryn O'Dwyer, Editor

In October of 1796, General Victor Collot, a spy for the French colonial government, arrived in New Orleans after a military expedition down the Mississippi River creating maps of Spanish land…