Plantation kraut cutter

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

The bottom half of a plantation kraut cutter, or vegetable slicer. The cutter is rectangular with a wooden base and side tracks for the slide box. The base is constructed from two (2) pieces of flat wood that has large crack running through them, with four (4) slicer blades placed across the center at a diagonal. The side track on either side of the cutter has deep grooves for the missing slide box. One side track has three (3) flat head screws and the other side has two (2) flat head screws and a nail. The base of the cutter is slightly raised and is resting on two (2) flat bars at each end of the cutter. The bars are attached with four (4) flat head screws on each side. One side has a fifth, empty screw hole.

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