The Planter's Prospect
Subtitle: Privilege and Slavery in Plantation Paintings
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: December 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780807826867
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -; Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes; Painting & paintings; Slavery & emancipation; Social history; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Art And Society; United States - 19th Century; 19th Century Art; Social Science; Art & Art Instruction; Plantation life in art; Art; USA; Criticism; American - General; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; History / United States / 19th Century; History; Southern States; 19th century; Landscape painting, American
First sentence: Historians have generally identified any agricultural holding operated with the labor of at least twenty slaves as a plantation.