G'wine to de Field, Hopkinson's Plantation, Edisto Island, South Carolina
G'wine to de Field, Hopkinson's Plantation, Edisto Island, South Carolina

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G'wine to de Field, Hopkinson's Plantation, Edisto Island, South Carolina,

1862

Henry P. Moore, American, 1835–1911
2017-33

During the Civil War, Moore, a photographer from New Hampshire, traveled to the Union-occupied coast of South Carolina. This image shows a group of farmers on Edisto Island who remained on the plantations where they had been enslaved, working the land for themselves. Here they pose with the tools of their labor, each directly addressing the gaze of the viewer.

Taken when the legal status of these farmers was uncertain, the image circulated later as an illustration of the time before the Emancipation Proclamation. In 1865 it was purchased from the photographer and published in the Philadelphia Photographer, which noted, "when they were taken, they were slaves; now they are free men and women."

Information

Title
G'wine to de Field, Hopkinson's Plantation, Edisto Island, South Carolina
Dates

1862

Maker
Henry P. Moore
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
13.5 × 18.1 cm (5 5/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, Fowler McCormick, Class of 1921, Fund
Object Number
2017-33
Place Made

North America, United States, South Carolina, Edisto Island

Culture
American
Type
photographs, albumen prints
Techniques
albumen process
Subject
women, donkeys, carts, figures (representations), children (people by age group), plantations, men

[Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA]; purchased by the Princeton University Art Museum, 2017.

Gwine to de Field

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