EditorialAfrican slaves harvesting cotton bolls, removing the seeds by machine, while an overseer with musket and whip drives a horse laden with raw cotton. West Indies, early 19th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Nasi from Giulio Ferrrario's Cost...
EditorialAfrican slaves harvesting cotton bolls, removing the seeds by machine, while an overseer with musket and whip drives a horse laden with raw cotton. West Indies, early 19th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Nasi from Giulio Ferrrario's Cost...
EditorialSprig of the cotton plant, Gossypium hirsutum, with bolls and leaves. Copperplate engraving after an original illustration by Captain John Gabriel Stedman from his Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, J. Johnso...
EditorialAfrican slaves harvesting cotton bolls, removing the seeds by machine, while an overseer with musket and whip drives a horse laden with raw cotton. West Indies, early 19th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Nasi from Giulio Ferrrario's Cost...