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Image Reference
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Source
Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny, Voyage pittoresque dans les deux Amériques...(Paris, 1836), facing p. 19, fig. 1. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)
Comments
Caption, "Case de Negres" (cabin/hut of blacks); thatched roofs are made from cane leaves ("paille de canne"). The author briefly describes life in the slave quarters when the enslaved are not at work; each household/family has its own dwelling, furnished according to the "wealth" of the inhabitants; also comments on the gardens, small livestock and poultry, and house construction etc. (pp. 25-26).
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