Tropenmuseum Royal Tropical Institute

ID: 6153 ~ Source: Collectie Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen and WikiCommons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tropenmuseum_Royal_Tropical_Institute_Objectnumber_3581-33h_Ingekleurde_litho_voorstellende_de_oo_(crop).jpg. ~ Creator: T. (Théodore) Bray (Tekenaar) ~ Date: 1840-1860

This file appears in: Sugar Granulation on the Boré Plantation

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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

By Taylor Lindner, edited by Kalie A. Dutra & Kathryn O'Dwyer

Antoine Morin, a free man of color, invented a sugar granulation process that launched the greed of Étienne de Boré and the intense labor demanded from enslaved people.