EditorialAfrican slaves driving horses to extract sugar from sugar cane in a mill on a plantation in the West Indies. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Migliavacca from Giulio Ferrrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moder...
EditorialThe horses, elephants and soldiers also enjoy Bharadvāja’s hospitality. The horses, hobbled and tethered, eat out of great golden dishes; likewise the elephants, presented here with sugar cane. The elephants bathe in a lotus lake into which rivers o...
EditorialPass card of various Surinamese rivers Pass card of the Commewini Suriname and Cupanama rivers (title on object), Pass card of the mouth of various Surinamese rivers in the Atlantic, including the Commewijne, the Coppename and the Suriname River, and i...
EditorialCoffee tree with ripe fruit, Coffea arabica 1, and sugar cane, Saccharum officinarum 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.
EditorialThe Mill Yard. Grinding sugar cane in a windmill. A scene in Antigua. Ten Views in the Island of Antigua, in which are represented the process of sugar making, and the employment of the negroes ... From drawings made by W. Clark, etc. London : Thomas C...
EditorialThe millyard - Grinding sugar cane in a windmill. From "Ten Views in the Island of Antigua", in which are represented the process of sugar making, and the employment of the negroes. Drawings by William Clark. Published by Thomas Clay; London, Engla...
EditorialSlaves cutting the sugar cane in Antigua. Ten Views in the Island of Antigua, in which are represented the process of sugar making, and the employment of the negroes ... From drawings made by W. Clark, etc. London : Thomas Clay, 1823. Source: 1786.c.9,...
EditorialSlaves bringing raw sugar cane to press between huge iron rollers at a sugar mill on a plantation in Brazil. Handcoloured lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche's "Vollstaendige V?lkergallerie in getreuen Abbildungen" (Complete Gallery of Peoples i...