Fish cooked over the fire 1839

The picture, "Plantation Cooks, Surinam, 1839" can be viewed at the website: Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record [link is below]. The site is a marvelous collection of 1235 period images on the Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life and can be searched by topics and by keyword (such as Virginia). Some topics are "New World Agriculture & Plantation Labor," "Plantation Scenes & Houses," and "Marketing & Urban Scenes." There are many terrific pictures on sugar mills and processing. The above image shows a few fish suspended above the cooking pot in the smoke.

Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record