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Image Reference
Ralph02
Source
Julian Ralph, Dixie; or, Southern Scenes and Sketches (New York, 1896), p. 275 (Special Collections, University of Virginia Library)
Comments
Women sowing rice on a South Carolina plantation; a Black overseer supervises the work. Although several decades after emancipation, this scene may evoke images of the late ante-bellum period.
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