Tropenmuseum Royal Tropical Institute
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Colored lithograph by Petit after a drawing by Théodore Bray Depiction of the harvesting of sugar cane on a plantation by enslave people. In the foreground left a so-called pondo, a flat-bottomed vessel with which the cane was transported to the plantation.
This file appears in: Sugar Granulation on the Boré Plantation
Sugar Granulation on the Boré Plantation
In 1794, Étienne de Boré (1741-1820) forced enslaved men and women to convert his failing indigo fields into a sugar plantation. [4] This forced labor camp sat across the lower parts of today’s Audubon Park. The plantation history is memorialized…