'Cutting Sugar Cane', 1826. Artist: Amelia Alderson Opie

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'Cutting Sugar Cane', 1826. A slave is shown with a hoe or scythe used to cut the sugar cane behind him. From The Black Man's Lament; or How to Make Sugar by Amelia Opie. (London, 1826).

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