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: Paperback
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780807853528
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; Landscape painting, American; Art & Art Instruction; Social Science; Southern States; Sociology; USA; Plantation life in art; American - General; Criticism; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; History / United States / 19th Century; United States - 19th Century; 19th century
First sentence: Historians have generally identified any agricultural holding operated with the labor of at least twenty slaves as a plantation.