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The History Blog just reported ( http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/57154 ) that the only known antebellum image of slaves with cotton recently sold at auction for a hammer price of $260k. This daguerreotype was purchased for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Here's their announcement of the acquisition: https://nelson-atkins.org/rare-daguerreotype-purchased-hall-family-foundation-nelson-atkins-s/
Here's the image (posted with permission from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art):
The History Blog says that the image was discovered in 2012 and had to undergo conservation. The blog explains why this image is significant:
"Images of enslaved people working on the cotton plantations of Georgia and the Carolinas are extant, but they were captured by photographers who traveled south with the Union Army. They were taken at the large coastal planters owned by the wealthiest elites and worked by hundreds of slaves. This daguerreotype depicts slavery at a rural holding, the type of small-scale operation that was typical for the vast majority of slaveholders."
Roy B. -- 25 Nov 2019
Here's the image (posted with permission from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art):
The History Blog says that the image was discovered in 2012 and had to undergo conservation. The blog explains why this image is significant:
"Images of enslaved people working on the cotton plantations of Georgia and the Carolinas are extant, but they were captured by photographers who traveled south with the Union Army. They were taken at the large coastal planters owned by the wealthiest elites and worked by hundreds of slaves. This daguerreotype depicts slavery at a rural holding, the type of small-scale operation that was typical for the vast majority of slaveholders."
Roy B. -- 25 Nov 2019