Cattle-Driven Sugar Mill, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1798
Description
This engraving shows enslaved blacks operating a rather unusual (by Caribbean standards) mill with vertical rollers; items are numbered and described in the text. Title reads: Plano de Reforma das moendas, epicadeiro dos Engenhos de assucar por Jeronimo Vieira de Abreu, Vizinho da Cidade de S. Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro (Diagram of the improvements [or repairs] to the cattle-driven mill of the sugar factory [done] by Jeronimo Vieira de Abreu, in the neighborhhod of the city of Sao Sebastiao de Rio de Janeiro).
Source
José Mariano da Conceicao, O fazendeiro do Brazil (Lisbon, 1798), vol. 1, after p. 192. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Language
Portuguese
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
JCB_72-196-2
Spatial Coverage
South America--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro
Item sets
Citation
"Cattle-Driven Sugar Mill, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1798", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed April 12, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1027
![This engraving shows enslaved blacks operating a rather unusual (by Caribbean standards) mill with vertical rollers; items are numbered and described in the text. Title reads: Plano de Reforma das moendas, epicadeiro dos Engenhos de assucar por Jeronimo Vieira de Abreu, Vizinho da Cidade de S. Sebastiao do Rio de Janeiro (Diagram of the improvements [or repairs] to the cattle-driven mill of the sugar factory [done] by Jeronimo Vieira de Abreu, in the neighborhhod of the city of Sao Sebastiao de Rio de Janeiro).](http://slaveryimages.org/files/large/394d130b80d43ccc2ea11ad330c1305b691985d9.jpg)
