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Identifier
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EAA11
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Title
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Enslaved People Dancing in the South, 1840s
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Description
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The Sabbath among slaves depicts various activities, e.g., dancing, playing banjo, wrestling, in a romanticized picture of American slave life as described by Henry Bibb.
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Creator
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Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
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Date Created
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1840s
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Publisher
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Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-107750
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Bibliographic Citation
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Henry Bibb, Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave (New York, 1849), facing p. 23. ( Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-107750)