Natal cotton field

Albumen print showing three workers picking cotton in South Africa. As on sugar plantations, day-to-day conditions for cotton pickers changed little after emancipation.

Object Details

ID: ZBA2623
Collection: Historic Photographs; Special collections
Type: Photograph
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Caney, Benjamin William
Date made: circa 1885
People: Caney, Benjamin William
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Michael Graham-Stewart Slavery Collection. Acquired with the assistance of the Heritage Lottery Fund
Measurements: 160 x 102 mm