Hughes Estate historic Smokehouse

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The smokehouse building is the best-preserved historic structure remaining at Hughes Estate, an 18-19th century sugar plantation, on Anguilla, B.W.I. This secure, stone-built building would have been used for curing and storing meat. The smokehouse building at Hughes is unique as it contains at least three carvings of ships on it’s interior walls. While this location was part of the plantation infrastructure, ultimately designed for the benefit of the plantation owners, it was enslaved individuals who labored in the space. Ship imagery has been found in enslaved contexts throughout the Americas. Scholars have argued the ship imagery belongs to African diasporic religious symbolism (Lindner 2016), and others as testament to surviving of the middle passage (Singleton and Torres de Souza 2009).

To learn more about this structure and what the ship imagery may have represented to the enslaved individuals who lived and labored at Hughes Estate visit : https://lcdssgeo.com/omeka-s/s/Hughes/page/smokehouse