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This essay examines the visual representations of sugar plantations in the eighteenth-century British West Indies, highlighting how these images constructed an idealized picturesque landscape that obscured the realities of slavery. It discusses the role of British artists and the picturesque theory in shaping perceptions of West Indian agriculture, while also addressing the marginalization of African slave labor in these representations. The study aims to expand the scholarship on sugar by integrating an ar

Author

Chijioke Fidelis Izuegbunem

Language

EN