Sedan chair, Bathsheba

dc.coverage.spatialBarbados - St. Joseph - Bathshebaen_US
dc.dateEarly 20th centuryen_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-15T15:04:18Z
dc.date.available2018-10-15T15:04:18Z
dc.descriptionLandscape, black & white, 4 x 6 in.en_US
dc.description.abstractA white woman being carried in a chair by two black males, while a white man walks alongside them. Sedan chairs are portable chairs carried on poles by two people. These chairs were used in the past for transporting a passenger and gained popularity as a means of ensuring expensive clothes and wigs were not tainted by the weather or the filth of the streets. In the past, passengers permitted themselves to be carried about by black males sometimes an entire day, some of them traveling in this manner from one plantation to another, while others employed this mode of transport in the streets.en_US
dc.identifier.otherpc 47
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2139/46059
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.relation.ispartofElizabeth Watson Audiovisual Uniten_US
dc.subjectSedan chairen_US
dc.subjectPlantation houseen_US
dc.subjectMenen_US
dc.subjectLaboren_US
dc.subject.otherPlantation lifeen_US
dc.titleSedan chair, Bathshebaen_US
dc.typeImageen_US

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