Working in Silver Mines, Peru 1789
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.
Image Title
Working in Silver Mines, Peru 1789
RegID
SI-OB-208
Date
1789
Title
Working in Silver Mines, Peru 1789
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
Item sets
Miscellaneous Occupations & Economic Activities
Spatial Coverage
South America--Peru
Reproduced In
Richard Johnson, The history of South America (London, 1789), following p. 166.
Researchers
Handler, Jerome; Tuite, Michael; Randall Ericson; Henry B. Lovejoy Graduate Research Assistants: Tiffany Beebe; Travis May
Identifier
JCB_35592-6