Working in Silver Mines, Peru 1789
Description
Captioned Slaves at Work in the Silver Mines of Peru, depicts several blacks wielding pick-axes to extract ore, another crushing the ore in a vessel, and a third working the bellows for a European smelter; a second European supervising.
Source
Richard Johnson, The history of South America (London, 1789), following p. 166. (Copy in the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University)
Language
English
Rights
Image is in the public domain. Metadata is available under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International.
Identifier
JCB_35592-6
Spatial Coverage
South America--Peru
Citation
"Working in Silver Mines, Peru 1789", 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/843