Harvest-Time on an American Cotton Plantation.

C19th engraving showing the processes of cotton production from picking to selling and trading.

1. On a Texas Plantation: Negroes bringing cotton home from the fields.
2. Selling the crop of cotton: “dat ain’t no sort of price, Boss”
3. Negroes gathering cotton.
4. Pressing a bale of cotton and putting on the iron bands.
5. Loading boats on the Mississippi with cotton for New Orleans.

From the original edition of The Graphic.