IMAGE 9: In what ways were slavery and abolition entangled with ideas about medicine and race in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries? ‘Sugar Cane Harvest, Jamaica, 1820s’, in H. T. De La Beche, Notes on the Present Condition of the Negroes in Jamaica (London, 1825), frontispiece. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University). Description: “Caption: ‘Jamaica Negroes Cutting Cane in their Working Dresses.’ Men and women in first gang cutting cane; supervised by a black driver with his staff.” Identifier: NW0055. Downloaded from Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora. Image: Public Domain. Metadata: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0).

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