Moulin à Sucre ("Sugar Mill")

Item

Title

Moulin à Sucre ("Sugar Mill")

Creator

Johann Mortiz Ruengas

Contributor

Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library

Date

1835

Description

Drawing of a mill yard and water-powered sugar mill in Brazil with enslaved people unloading freshly cut cane. First published in Johann Moritz Rugendas, Voyage Pittoresque dans le Bresil. Traduit de l'Allemand (Paris, 1835; also published in same year in German).

Format

Still image

Identifier

http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1087

Language

en French

Rights

Image is in the public domain.

Source

"Plantation Mill Yard and Sugar Mill, Brazil, 1830s," Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed August 21, 2023, http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1087

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Image of Black individuals working at a mill grinding sugar cane, with animals in the open yardMoulin à Sucre ("Sugar Mill")