Indigo Manufacture, French West Indies, 18th cent.
Description
Various phases of indigo cultivation and processing are shown in this engraving and details are given in the text. See also images Pomet-92 and NW0010 on this website.
Source
Jean Baptiste Labat, Nouveau voyage aux isles de l'Amerique (Paris, 1742), Vol. 1, following p. 268. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Language
French
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
JCB_35892-10
Spatial Coverage
Caribbean
Item sets
Citation
"Indigo Manufacture, French West Indies, 18th cent.", Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora, accessed May 27, 2021, http://slaveryimages.org/s/slaveryimages/item/1030
