Interior of a Boiling House, French West Indies, 1762
Item
Title
Interior of a Boiling House, French West Indies, 1762
Description
Illustration of enslaved laborers processing sugar in a boiling house. The sugar flows from the mill to a tank (B), where in then boils in a series of coppers (C). The enslaved laborers move the crystalizing sugar from one copper to the next with the giant ladles.
Source
Denis Diderot, Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers . . . Recueil de Planches, sur les Sciences . . . (Paris, 1762), vol. 1, plate IV. (Copy in Special Collections Department, University of Virginia Library)
Publisher
www.slaveryimages.org
Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora.
Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora.
Identifier
sucrerie_plate4
http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/3124
http://www.slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/3124
Rights
Image is in the public domain.
